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This doesn’t seem recognizable to me. Do you live in Texas? (Yeah, parent comment has changed.)

by dfee 5y ago

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s5300 5y ago
No, as much as I don't like it, he is correct. Especially South Texas. A large factor is immigrants that went through the tedious years long drudgery that is the legal process for US citizenship being really pissed at the fact some may not have to go through the aforementioned like they did - misery loves company or something like that. Another is that these immigrants and minorities are typically fairly uneducated and truly believe the man with the golden shitter is actually like them and is going to help them. And some of it is trying to fit in with the preexisting community. If you're a brown person in a town of white religious/nationalistic fanatics that typically do not like brown people, vowing your loyalty to their guy is typically a quick way to fit in a bit better.
big_youth 5y ago
Yes, third generation Native with a house in urban Austin but currently near the Guadalupe Mountains out west. I know reddit isn't representative of the state but both /r/austin and /r/texas have had this conversation many times.[0][1] I personally agree with the thesis that Texas GOP see's the demographic writing on the wall and want to limit to more liberal immigrants. And because I already saw a comment mentioning it, I want to add that as a Mexican born and raised a border town I think the flipped Hispanic counties on the border are an anomaly. If you investigate the counties, like Zavala, that flipped, they are 1 largely blue collar men which love Trump (my roofer uncle), and 2 Zavala was actually one of the few counties that LOST population according to the 2020 census. The correlation is visible, the counties that had the highest population decline in Texas voted most heavily for Trump while the fast growing suburbs are now purple and blue. In this booming state the poor counties losing money and people are the ones voting GOP. [0]https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/phszk7/anyone_suddenly_want_to_leave_not_because_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/phszk7/anyone_sudde... [1]https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/pgjze1/anyone_else_getting_the_urge_to_move_out_of_texas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/pgjze1/anyone_else_g...
- dfee 5y ago
  What part of “the parent comment has changed” did you not understand?

This doesn’t seem recognizable to me. Do you live in Texas? (Yeah, parent comment has changed.)

by dfee 5y ago

This doesn’t seem recognizable to me. Do you live in Texas? (Yeah, parent comment has changed.)

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s5300 5y ago

No, as much as I don't like it, he is correct. Especially South Texas. A large factor is immigrants that went through the tedious years long drudgery that is the legal process for US citizenship being really pissed at the fact some may not have to go through the aforementioned like they did - misery loves company or something like that. Another is that these immigrants and minorities are typically fairly uneducated and truly believe the man with the golden shitter is actually like them and is going to help them. And some of it is trying to fit in with the preexisting community. If you're a brown person in a town of white religious/nationalistic fanatics that typically do not like brown people, vowing your loyalty to their guy is typically a quick way to fit in a bit better.

big_youth 5y ago

Yes, third generation Native with a house in urban Austin but currently near the Guadalupe Mountains out west. I know reddit isn't representative of the state but both /r/austin and /r/texas have had this conversation many times.[0][1] I personally agree with the thesis that Texas GOP see's the demographic writing on the wall and want to limit to more liberal immigrants. And because I already saw a comment mentioning it, I want to add that as a Mexican born and raised a border town I think the flipped Hispanic counties on the border are an anomaly. If you investigate the counties, like Zavala, that flipped, they are 1 largely blue collar men which love Trump (my roofer uncle), and 2 Zavala was actually one of the few counties that LOST population according to the 2020 census. The correlation is visible, the counties that had the highest population decline in Texas voted most heavily for Trump while the fast growing suburbs are now purple and blue. In this booming state the poor counties losing money and people are the ones voting GOP. [0]https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/phszk7/anyone_suddenly_want_to_leave_not_because_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/phszk7/anyone_sudde... [1]https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/pgjze1/anyone_else_getting_the_urge_to_move_out_of_texas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/pgjze1/anyone_else_g...

dfee 5y ago
What part of “the parent comment has changed” did you not understand?