I'm so ashamed of my Texas contingent in Congress.

[Subdivisions]

I hate it here (Edited: politically speaking) and I'm glad I'm working on leaving.

[Waya]

1. Gonna be a 'Recovering Texan', huh?

Hope it works out for you!

[Subdivisions]

4. Actually, I'm not a Texan. I'm originally from Virginia. However

I love and care about many Texans. As for Texans in general, they are weird. On the one hand they are nice and caring people and very patriotic. On the other, they are very gullible to the socio-political/religious fundamentalist strategies and ideologies of those who seek to enslave them. They drink the kool-aid with a savage thirst.

But, mess with someone they care about and they will rip you to shreds. They defend their patriotism all the while having no conception of how the neocon/bush agenda and actions strip from them the very liberty they credit to that agenda.

Then I sit here watching Texas reps and feeling shame at their obvious devotion to the machine that has chewed this nation to pieces.

Real, palpable, profound shame.

[hobbit709]

6. I like my congresscritter Lloyd Doggett

And there are a few in VA that are Class A turkeys too-like Virgil Goode

[readmoreoften]

13. I'm a Lloyd Doggett constituent too! One of the good few who voted against the PATRIOT ACT!

[Javaman]

15. Lloyd is the man! I got to meet him years ago. really nice guy. :) nt

[wurzel]

10. I've always regarded Texas as the most corrupt State in the USA.

But I have never lived there. How corrupt is it?

[hobbit709]

16. Ohio and Alabama are major contenders for that title.

[quiet.american]

2. I hear you. nt

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. having lived in Ca for most of my life

and now living in the South... I'm amazed people stay here.
The cultural thing is another issue, but the weather alone would make me look for another place to live.
(and yes, I plan on moving back to the west coast as soon as I can)

[sui generis]

5. well I like Texas.

So the rest of you can happily go to hell.

Texas bashers. Pfaw.

:hi:

Seriously though, some people stay and fight, some people run. Everyone else just armchair quarterbacks.

You know who you are. You feel good about yourselves because life happened to have dumped you in a blue state and you didn't have to do anything to make it that way other than move your ass there.

edited to add, grumble, mumble, grmsmsmfph harrrumph!

[Subdivisions]

7. I am leaving because I am going home. However, rather than

re-settle in the Hampton Roads area (where I am from), I am first exploring the possibility of moving a bit to the north to the DC metro area or within a reasonable (1-2 hours out) distance so I can, indeed, "stay and fight", just not in Texas - been there and done that for 30 years.

Don't get me wrong. I like Texas. I don't agree with the prevailing ideologies here, but I love it nonetheless. I'm simply going "home" and I will continue to fight the good fight a whole lot closer to the action with regards to the Constitution.

Edited to add: I forgot to say that I despise most Texas politicians.

[readmoreoften]

14. I moved from a so-called Blue State to Texas. It's more diverse than people think.

I've been much more comfortable being queer here than in most central and south Jersey or Pennsylvania. Sure those states are only 45% Republican, but they're the nastiest, rudest Republicans you'd ever meet.

[Maestro]

8. I hate my congresscritters

Joe Barton, Kay Baily Hutchison and John Cornyn can all go to hell! I can't stand my governor, governor Goodhair Rick Perry, but I am staying because my family has deep roots in Texas and we are more Texan than any of these bozos. Texas has brought to this country mighty a fine Democrat and progressive activist. There are quite a few here at DU. Let's not forget Molly Ivins, Barbara Jordan and Jim Hightower either.

[bvar22]

9. I hear ya, but you can also be proud of:

Bill Moyers

Jim Hightower

Molly Ivins

Ann Richards

This Texan


many other sharp tongued, outspoken, populist Democrats.

[otohara]

11. If CO Doesn't Go Blue This POTUS Election

I'll be so disappointed. :cry:

[spanone]

12. hey, i'm in tenn and i have 2 puke senators and an obnoxious rep marsha blackburn