Lone Star Shift? A Daughter of Texas Speaks Out

[ashling]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/opinion/lone-star-shift-a-daughter-of-texas-speaks-out.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1362186057-OEMAUyldcL0/5aaLu26nfg

In “Lone Star Blues” (Op-Ed, Feb. 20), Richard Parker writes that “turning Texas blue — or even purple — is going to be a lot harder than most folks imagine.” He points out that Democratic Party leaders are hanging their Stetsons on the increase in Hispanic voters in the state. But there is another critical element for anyone seeking electoral success in Texas: women. They are fed up with the backward policies coming out of Austin — and by the way, women make up a majority of the growing population of Hispanic voters in Texas.

Gov. Rick Perry and his party have given priority to anti-women’s health policies, first slashing money for the state’s family planning program and then creating a costly health program that denies women access to Planned Parenthood’s preventive health care services. This strategy is out of touch with what Texans want.

[Warpy]

1. That, too, but they're going to have to hope

a lot of those wingnut churches that preach politics start to go out of business, also.

I don't see Texas turning very blue as long as those crooked churches are still allowed to preach hate and call it godly.

[DollarBillHines]

3. Those places are becoming more and more marginalized.

Obama won almost every metropolitan area (including Beaumont, for God's sake!).

The only thing keeping Texas red is gerrymandering. It is really that simple.

Once Perry and the rest of the Rove/Bush cabal is out, it will be all over but the crying.

And it won't be long.

[TxDemChem]

2. I really don't think it will turn blue until...

(And I hate to say this because it sounds ugly) the older, ultra-conservative, climate change-denying, sexually sterile people die off. I work with a lot of them and they just seem so backwards. They can deny it all they want, but some of their daughters and sons just don't believe in that fictional 1950s America that they have been talking about. This is not "Leave It to Beaver" land (and never was).

[northoftheborder]

4. You may be right....but there are a lot of baby boomers who have been taught the conservative...

...doctrine....and they ain't gone yet.