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Texas was once Blue and it will turn blue again, give it 8 to 12 years and it will be Blue for a 50 years
Tolerance on Neogaf means accepting a very narrow worldview.
Belongs to the US government which theoretically belongs to the people.The land belongs to the United States. If the people want to leave and start their own country, that's fine though.
Texas was once Blue and it will turn blue again, give it 8 to 12 years and it will be Blue for a 50 years
How so? Please explain.
True. I'm curious to see how the GOP adjusts to deal with that.
Belongs to the US government which theoretically belongs to the people.
Wait what? When I think Midwest I think Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and IowaThe midwest will finally have a reason to exist again instead of being a giant cornfield that nobody wants.
The electoral college serves at the pleasure of the state legislature by allowing the electorate to choose the electors. The state legislature is far redder because of it being far more gerrymandered than an at-large district. If the Texan electoral college turned blue there are three ways the state legislature could go about it:
1) Elect the electoral college based on congressional districts won (which are also gerrymandered) plus two votes for the winner.
2) Elect the electoral college based on proportion of popular vote
3) Supply explicitly republican electors to the college without even being included in the presidential vote.
No, the US should just fucking get rid of gerrymandering. Implement a law requiring competitive districts. Congress is fucking moronic because the majority of house representatives have uncompetative districts allowing the most extreme, vitriolic, asinine, destructive, pandering to the fringes, representatives to be elected and spread their poisonous venom into our national discourse. The majority of country does not have the same beliefs as snakes like Ted Cruz.
No, the US should just fucking get rid of gerrymandering. Implement a law requiring competitive districts. Congress is fucking moronic because the majority of house representatives have uncompetative districts allowing the most extreme, vitriolic, asinine, destructive, pandering to the fringes, representatives to be elected and spread their poisonous venom into our national discourse. The majority of country does not have the same beliefs as snakes like Ted Cruz.
Eh? You can't really use gerrymandering and Ted Cruz in the same example. Unless you are imlying he won because of gerrymandering. In which case I would love to hear your argument
The land belongs to the United States. If the people want to leave and start their own country, that's fine though.
The whole idea is dumbThe key is "all" of the people, not "some" of the people.
Logistically, yes, but I was thinking more in terms of how the republican party would adjust their national platform to account for having lost Texas as part of the electoral math in presidential elections. Without Texas, how do they maintain a path to 270 is what I'm asking.
We aren't very far away from having the majority of people in this country living in the south and speaking with that lovely southern drawl.
Is that really true?You mean the drawl that sounds like British people fighting Napoleon in 1800? Well, fair enough, I fully support archiac English if not the policies of the southern lords/plantation owners/CEOs that kept it going.
(Yes if you time travelled, everyone in London in 1800 would sound like a Southerner.)
Implement a law requiring competitive districts.
Define "competitive" and what do we do if one becomes non-competitive without redistricting the entire state every other year?No, the US should just fucking get rid of gerrymandering. Implement a law requiring competitive districts.
Collapse is an overstatement, but there would be serious issues in the south, not to say the north wouldn't have its own issues. Financially, red states have depended on more federal tax dollars than blue. Then there's the whole discrimination thing, which would eventually lead to strife. I'd imagine that religion would guide many decisions, forcing those with different religions to conform or be discriminated against. Southern state and city governments would put in place repetitive functions of government that the current federal government handles (i.e. different standards everywhere.) Even more lax gun laws would lead to higher firearm death rates and suicide rates. Schools would teach slanted views on history, Barack "Hussein" Obama and Reganomics works and god was responsible for x or y. Worker rights would be diminished, wages would fall for the poor and safety regulations would be relaxed in the name of profits.
Kind of like what's happening now, only on a larger scale.
Yeah but let's be fair, those Blue politicians were significantly different than those of today.Texas was once Blue and it will turn blue again, give it 8 to 12 years and it will be Blue for a 50 years
Yeah but let's be fair, those Blue politicians were significantly different than those of today.
And I get the feeling that if Texas seceded from the US, Austin would secede from Texas and become a Vatican/Morocco-like city state. XD
In case you haven't been paying attention, there's a mass migration in the US to the South.
Most of the babies born in this country are in the south. We aren't very far away from having the majority of people in this country living in the south and speaking with that lovely southern drawl.
How ignorant is that Boston and New York accent gonna sound then. It's already so goddamn cringe worthy.
I don't have any study to cite here, but my gut says yes. The GOP already throws around a lot of dog whistles: "real" america, states rights, referring to dems as "liberal elites" in "big cities", confederate flags, etc. There's a lot of us vs. them terminology that's directly linked to the Civil War to this very day.
And this would be hilarious to you because...?
I don't think the United States wants to lose the economies of Texas and Florida.
I just find it rather interesting how the north always claims to be more for equality and understanding and yet looks down on an entire region, whether deserved or not, as if they are subhuman garbage.
Its just interesting.
The South is great. Why the hate, OP?
The midwest will finally have a reason to exist again instead of being a giant cornfield that nobody wants.
Real nice attitude. You should realize that the coastal states need the midwest more than the midwest needs the coastal states. The midwest feeds the rest of the country, has enormous fresh water reserves via the Great Lakes, provides a lot of the manufacturing jobs in this country and has huge oil reserves.
If only the states in the OP would secede, I doubt it would work. However, if we were talking about all the red states, it would work. Red states hold the oil, natural gas, natural resources, farm land, military industry, factories, ports, and infrastructure. While the Blue states mostly have cities and population but very little of the infrastructure that won the Civil War.
California says hi to bolded
The south secretly thinks they'd do "jest fine"
yeah, because everyone in the south thinks like this.
what the fuck
did you get this from a rest stop pamphlet or something? we're being cynical here.
Yes i'm sure the declining rust belt and bread basket are still great.
I don't have any study to cite here, but my gut says yes. The GOP already throws around a lot of dog whistles: "real" america, states rights, referring to dems as "liberal elites" in "big cities", confederate flags, etc. There's a lot of us vs. them terminology that's directly linked to the Civil War to this very day.
No rest stop pamphlet. I'm just not an ignorant jackass, unlike some people in this thread.