Yes, there is much about Texas to be proud of, especially in comparison to many blue states.
But eventually mass immigration is going to turn Texas into a battleground state. I don’t think Texas will go the way of California since white Texans are largely a conservative group, but eventually 70+% of the white vote won’t be enough to allow the GOP to dominate the state like it has for almost 20 years now. And if Texas has a lot of whites from blue states moving in, then they’ll probably bring their politics with them and that 70+% of the white vote that the GOP usually gets will probably start to drop.
Hispanics in Texas may not be as liberal as they are in other states, but they are liberal, and still vote overwhelmingly Democrat almost all the time. Current mass legal immigration is bad enough, but if something like Schumer-Rubio passes then the flow of future Democrats into Texas will only increase.
As far as gay marriage goes, Anthony Kennedy has made his intentions clear. As soon as he gets the opportunity he will cast the deciding vote to impose gay marriage on the entire nation (seeing this, John Roberts will probably join and make it a 6-3 decision). When this happens, Texas will meekly accept it just like every other state, because the nation has been taught to accept judicial supremacy, and we accept it we have.
Actually, that isn't true. I just read a report yesterday about that and our State Republican Party is growing at a more than average rate and it's the Hispanics who are making that difference. The Democrat Party is not growing even though the Democrats at the federal level are pouring millions into Texas to try to bring about that change of which you speak.
Our state party has made an effort to go face to face with Latinos and they are responding by becoming Republicans and candidates for our party.
Another effort the state party is doing, is opening year round Republican offices in Latino areas. This is genius since I have seen this happen before as we did it in the county where I was. We opened a Republican office and people came. There was no Democrat office and their numbers kept going down. We turned that county into a Republican County.
Our State Party Chairman, Steve Munisteri, has been pulling in money from all over the state and the party has money to make these efforts to reach the Latinos. Latinos in Texas are not for homosexual marriage but they are for working, being independent, and making Texas better which means they will have better lives. These Latinos are becoming Republican every day.
So, I reject these posts that say Texas will become a battle ground or blue - it isn't going to happen and we are working to make sure it doesn't happen.
“As far as gay marriage goes,...When this happens, Texas will meekly accept it just like every other state, because the nation has been taught to accept judicial supremacy, and we accept it we have.”
I don’t know where you live but if you live in Texas, maybe you should move because you don’t know much about Texas.
We have a state law against homosexual marriage and its in our Texas constitution that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Texas has never meekly accepted anything, including the Mexican Army with Santa Anna whose butt we kicked back to Mexico.
Oh, I’m well aware of the grim prospects facing Texas. But in the bigger picture, once Texas goes down the path you’ve described, the entirity of America will already be rather lost, so it’s an awfully moot point.
And indeed, once the SC/Feds force homo-marriage onto all the states, the country just might as well burn to the ground. We’re already transitioning from a country that achieved greatness and exceptionalism to one that is actually now embracing depravity and evil.