Texas has biggest gap between wealthiest and middle class!

[NVMojo]

Teleconference scheduled for Wednesday. Are we surprised by this????

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"For years, there have been reports about the widening gaps between the rich and the poor, but few include a detailed look at income inequality trends in Texas. A new study, put out by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute, finds that Texas leads the nation in income inequality between its richest and middle class families, and has the second widest gap between its wealthiest and poorest."

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http://www.newsunfiltered.com/archives/2006/01/cppp_and_cbpp_t.html

[flordehinojos]

1. i am ready to blame it on the oil baron bush family!

[2Design]

2. so why do all of those people vote for the repubs - not a clue ? n/t

[yella_dawg]

4. "All of those people" voted repub

because Texas was used as a proving ground for the strategies rolled out across the nation a few years later. Remember that Texas redistricting is before the Supreme Court. The Baptist Church has always been strong in the state, thus the politicization of the church had a strong impact. Texas politics has always been a little "dirty" so the "R" tactics fit in well, in that spurious attacks, "bloody shirt" tactics, other questionable activities were easy to implement.

Texas is "special" as a repub stronghold because it was the first to be destroyed, not because of some specific quality of the people. Until Reagan, Texas was as Democrat as they came.

[yella_dawg]

3. I grew up in small town Texas

in an area that was a model for this phenomenon. In the sixties, Jack County supposedly had the highest per capita concentration of millionaires in the nation. In the eighties, the economy imploded, primarily because those with the stroke prohibited any economic activity that would threaten the status quo. Now, immigrant workers are rehabilitating the homes that have stood empty for a decade or more, they are providing a stable tax base for the first time in thirty years, and the county seat at least has a prospect of recovering. Without the influx of "amnesty" Mexican workers, the town would be gone or almost gone by now. A real examination of the economic evolution of the area would be fascinating.

Looks like Texas as a whole will duplicate the process.