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There's a clear reason why - Texas has no interest in attracting well educated people. Well educated people tend to think through things like, "should we unders

• xeornet 2y ago
  I’m happy to be white, conservative and well educated. Stay in another state that’s more… culturally enriched.
  • yareal 2y ago
    What does that mean? Because it sure reads like a euphemism for "non white".
    • selimthegrim 2y ago
      These are people who, to put it politely, subscribe to Neil Stephenson’s thesis in “In the Beginning was the Command Line” I happen to think Stephenson was dead wrong, and his example of composite culture was a strawman, and I’m not the only person who does. Or, you know, they could just be racist.
      • xeornet 2y ago
        What? I was replying to the guy that essentially said that the people in Austin are white, Conservative and NON-educated. I went to on explain that there also educated white conservatives…
        • selimthegrim 2y ago
          “Culturally enriched” is a common right wing dog whistle even if you didn’t mean it that way
• abduhl 2y ago
  Where do you live? Based on your attitude I’d guess Seattle or Portland. Last I checked, there’s proportionally more white folks in the PNW than Texas, proportionally more white folks in Seattle/Portland than say Dallas or Houston, and let’s not even get into eastern Washington or Oregon for conservative ideas like how “No free negro or mulatto not residing in this state at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall come, reside or be within this state or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit therein; and the legislative assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by public officers of all such negroes and mulattoes, and for their effectual exclusion from the state, and for the punishment of persons who shall bring them into the state, or employ or harbor them.”
  • yareal 2y ago
    Are you suggesting Texas is systemically a great place to live for non white folks? Refuting the statement above? Seattle definitely has a history of redlining and race exclusion. It's also farther from the U.S. south, where population densities of non white folk historically lived. That city is almost certainly alienating to non white folks from a "few people here look like me" perspective. But Texas has a higher rate of incarceration for Black folks, per 100,000 Black folks than Washington. I don't know that I'd call the state a great place to live, even if lots of people call it home. A high population of any one group does not mean that the state is a good place for those people. Or that those people will have cultural acceptance. Using your examples, Oregon and Washington and Texas all have about 50% women, but Oregon and Washington are much less likely to remove access to women's healthcare.
    • abduhl 2y ago
      >> Are you suggesting Texas is systemically a great place to live for non white folks? Refuting the statement above? As a non white person that has lived in both Seattle and Texas: I am not suggesting, it I am affirming it. It’s weird to talk with people like you who are so wrapped up in identity politics yet you can’t see the appeal of being in an area where you aren’t the only one of your kind.