Texas is seceding please stop them

[geefloyd46]

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[loudsue]

1. 24 Million people live in Texas. 27 thousand signed the petition.

There might be another million who would sign. The other 25+ million are not as mentally challenged as the signers.

[aletier_v]

4. "The other 25+ million are not as mentally challenged as the signers"

Are we talking about the same Texas? USA?

[freshwest]

7. You may want to reconsider that statement after reading this data about Texas from the last census:

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http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48000.html

And the latest election results:

Newly-Elected Texas Senator Is Absolutely Terrified About His State Going Blue

In Ryan Lizza's story in this week's The New Yorker, Texas' newly-elected Republican Senator Ted Cruz worries about the changing electoral landscape — and how it could get even less favorable for the GOP in coming years.

Cruz provides what must be a truly terrifying thought for the Republican Party:

“In not too many years, Texas could switch from being all Republican to all Democrat,” he said. “If that happens, no Republican will ever again win the White House. New York and California are for the foreseeable future unalterably Democrat. If Texas turns bright blue, the Electoral College math is simple. We won’t be talking about Ohio, we won’t be talking about Florida or Virginia, because it won’t matter. If Texas is bright blue, you can’t get to two-seventy electoral votes. The Republican Party would cease to exist. We would become like the Whig Party. Our kids and grandkids would study how this used to be a national political party. ‘They had Conventions, they nominated Presidential candidates. They don’t exist anymore.’”

http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-swing-state-blue-election-obama-ted-cruz-2012-11

Republicans lose supermajority in Texas House

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans lost their 102-member supermajority in the Texas House early Wednesday, opening the door for Democrats to slow or block the majority's conservative agenda or demand compromise.

Democrats have won more than 50 seats in the 150-member lower chamber of the Legislature. That means Republicans can no longer suspend the rules to push through legislation over the objections of minority Democrats.

Last year, Republicans had enough lawmakers to form a quorum without any Democrat showing up for work. Now Democrats could shut down state lawmaking if they wished.

Democrats added seats mostly through redistricting, which occurs every 10 years when the new U.S. Census is released. Texas added more than 4.3 million people between 2000 and 2010 and 89 percent of them were minorities.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Republicans-lose-supermajority-in-Texas-House-4017513.php#ixzz2BhkTehKu

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021771842

That was despite gerrymandering and the other thuggish actions of Republicans. The state of Texas has had 39 Democratic govenors versus only 6 Republican governors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Governor

Texas has a longer history of being Democratic than Republican. Don't rule them out yet.

[graegoyle]

10. Oh, Please...

Please; please, please let me not be dreaming. Texas, please make this happen.

Poster, please post this as a new thread.

[freshwest]

11. Okay, I relent. I'll post in the Texas group for some encouragement.

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[Ash_F]

15. His anxiety is like mana from heaven

"In not too many years, Texas could switch from being all Republican to all Democrat,” he said. “If that happens, no Republican will ever again win the White House. New York and California are for the foreseeable future unalterably Democrat. If Texas turns bright blue, the Electoral College math is simple. We won’t be talking about Ohio, we won’t be talking about Florida or Virginia, because it won’t matter. If Texas is bright blue, you can’t get to two-seventy electoral votes. The Republican Party would cease to exist. We would become like the Whig Party. Our kids and grandkids would study how this used to be a national political party. ‘They had Conventions, they nominated Presidential candidates. They don’t exist anymore.’”
^^^^
I want to believe.

[demwing]

12. Your math is confusing

24 million (people live in Texas) - 1 million (Texans who might sign) = 25+ million (Texans not as mentally challenged as the signers )?

24-1=25+?

What did I mess up?

[loudsue]

17. Hahahah! Ooops!

I guess I was subtracting from 27???? Hell, I don't know. I was on a roll.

[northoftheborder]

2. Don't worry ---- this is a bunch of hot air............

[RC]

3. Which, Texans or the petition signers?

[Blue4Texas]

5. Texas is not going anywhere

But if some Texans want to leave, we won't stop them

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Sore losermen.

[freshwest]

8. Actually. the same reason for TX remaining in the Union remains the same as it giving up its own

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status as its own independent country:

Mexico.

They might want that piece of real estate back, although the border doesn't really matter.

Texas isn't going any where, the Teahadists are just trying to whip up the racists.

The war has been over there for years, but they haven't heard the news yet.

The TeaPony Express died of fatty gooey of the heart from eating too much fried coca cola.

[ballaratocker]

9. They will want to secede

then along comes swine flu or something like that and they will be back into the federal system.

[SmileyRose]

13. Texas produced Ann Richards - I have faith in Texas

Eventually the millions of sane decent hardworking people of Texas will squash the crazies.

Yes the gun toting, pick up loving, cow eating, oil folks in Texas poke fun at the sandal wearing, Vegan, bike riding, bean sprout and avocado crowd and vise versa but most of us all want what's best for the vast majority of Americans and for the world in general. With that basis we can have some respect for each other and still poke a little fun.

But the rise of the evangelicals and teanuts have just poisoned the discourse. Eventually those groups will get neutered and the 1% will have to figure out another way to keep us all fighting with each other rather than all 99% of us go at the 1% with pitchforks.

We can always hope that by the time the whackjobs get neutered we'll have all gotten wise to the game and decide to work together.

[jsr]

14. And LBJ.

[freshwest]

16. +1,000 to what you said.