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TexasTowelie

(112,159 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 07:30 AM Apr 2019

All of Texas GOP's Fears About Migration Are Coming True, New Report Says

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott first warned of the coming scourge in 2015. Ousted Dallas Republican Congressman Pete Sessions spotted it, too, but not soon enough to stave off defeat from Democrat Colin Allred. The real threat to Texas, its economic prosperity and its way of life, at least to Republicans like Abbott, Sessions and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, comes not from within the state, but from outsiders.

Californians, specifically.

“What irony it is that that which we have built has also turned us into a larger metroplex that has gathered people from all over the country, including those from parts of our West who have come to Dallas and perhaps not really understood the true nature of Texas,” Sessions lamented in his late-night concession speech last November.

Dallas has it so good in Sessions' mind that liberals are coming here to ruin it. As strange as it sounds, data from a new affordable housing and migration report by NerdWallet actually backs up the idea. Texas, and Dallas specifically, have been getting "Californized."

Between 2012 and 2016, 280,000 people a year, about 1.4 million total, moved to DFW. While most of those movers came from other parts of Texas, Dallas received its biggest out-of-state influx from Los Angeles. New York and Chicago, two progressive cities in their own rights, sent the second- and third-most transplants the city's way, respectively.

Read more: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/los-angeles-residents-are-flocking-to-dallas-new-survey-says-11628950

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All of Texas GOP's Fears About Migration Are Coming True, New Report Says (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2019 OP
"who have come to Dallas and perhaps not really understood the true nature of Texas," ExciteBike66 Apr 2019 #1
What you don't understand is..... MyOwnPeace Apr 2019 #2
As a native Texan, I say that is total BS. The present GOP leadership and those that have ruined my walkingman Apr 2019 #3
Preach it Brotha! Nt flamin lib Apr 2019 #5
Texas will turn blue Gothmog Apr 2019 #4

ExciteBike66

(2,342 posts)
1. "who have come to Dallas and perhaps not really understood the true nature of Texas,"
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 07:43 AM
Apr 2019

Texas was originally part of Mexico, and Americans ended up flowing in and breaking off from Mexico to form their own country.

Thus, it seems the Californians really DO understand Texas!


Furthermore, it's odd for Republicans to complain about Californians coming to "their" states when they are always crowing about how many Californians are leaving California for lower-tax jurisdictions. I mean, where are those Californians SUPPOSED to go?

MyOwnPeace

(16,926 posts)
2. What you don't understand is.....
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 07:52 AM
Apr 2019

there's "bad white" and "Good White."

Them "bad whites" have been living with all those "not whites" too long and have forgotten their true roots (no, not like that TV show about them other "not whites" ) - thus they don't really know the rules.

Thank Gawd we have IQ45 in there to lead the way!


(Just in case........

walkingman

(7,609 posts)
3. As a native Texan, I say that is total BS. The present GOP leadership and those that have ruined my
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 08:05 AM
Apr 2019

Great State are people like the Bush family, Rick Perry, and now Abbott and his band of dumbasses. Starting in the early 90's with the likes of Karl Rove the State of Texas turned a state that cared about education and the welfare of Texans into a state that bowed to Business at the expense of it citizens.

We not only welcome those from the State of California but are thankful for their entrepreneurship and open-mindedness. Our Mexican heritage has been exploited for the last 30 years and it's time to "Take it Back".

I say "Welcome California" bring as many as you can......we need your help to rid ourselves of these vermin.

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