Ignorance is bliss, and Texas spends pitifully little on education. There aren't a whole lot of States with high concentrations of institutions of higher learning that vote Republican.
Also, the press in Texas is dominated by the right. What will save us eventually will be immigration and the slow erosion of the environment. That's a heavy indictment in itself, but that's the way it is in Texas. Not enough people yet are getting cancer from waste dumps, and not enough people yet have flammable methane coming out of their faucets. Texas will be a version of America in 2008. Things will have to deteriorate further before enough people realize they have been lied to and poorly led.
That having been said, there IS the strong Democratic push in the cities, and most TX Hispanics are with us. There's a reason Texas is so interested in voter suppression, and it's not to stop Republican Hispanics from registering to vote.
I was at a dinner in Dallas a few years ago where Jim Carville was the main speaker. The hall was packed. His first remark was, "When I was asked to speak before a gathering of the Texas Democrats, I thought I'd be giving this speech in a phone booth." A few hundred Texas Democrats, filling the room, laughed and cheered.
We'll get there some day. Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert and Rick Perry will some day be recognized for the embarrassments they are/were, and the tide will turn. We are not Rhode Island. Things move slower in a big place like Texas.
To those who would lump us all in with Perry, Gohmert and Cruz instead of our idols like Molly Ivins, Ann Richards and her daughter Cecile, you can use your imagination as to which finger I would use to answer that. Just because we have an uphill battle doesn't mean we won't fight it, and we all get by a lot better with a little help from our friends rather than dumped upon because we're still in the minority down there.
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