It would be a damned country with Wu in charge.
Posted on 06/29/2026 4:25:52 AM PDT by DFG
DALLAS — After 60 years of Republican domination in southern states, a new coalition of Democrats is eager to end GOP control in the South.
This “New Southern Strategy" was organized by the Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu, D-Houston. His idea is to bring together Democratic legislative leaders from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and other southern states.
The new coalition just met in Atlanta for the first time.
Lawmakers discussed strategies for responding to Republican legislation in their respective states. Wu said that Democrats have historically fought similar political battles independently but now suggests a collective effort across state lines could strengthen their efforts.
“What we learned from watching all the fights happening right now is that we’re all so weak because we’re operating in silos,” Wu said on WFAA’s Inside Texas Politics. “We’re fighting battles by ourselves, our communities feel isolated, and what we’re saying now is if we are all in the same position let's fight together.”
The Democratic coalition claims its goal is to unify strategies for issues like voting rights, redistricting and other challenges they say affect democracy across the region.
“We've shared tactics. We've talked about what we can do in the future and how we can move this along. And, you know, just that one meeting has paid off,” Wu said. “We're not here to help Democrats win. We're here to save the damn country.”
And Georgia was their first victory, he explained.
“For months there were concerns that Georgia Republicans would use [a] special session to further weaken minority representation through mid-decade redistricting,” Wu said. “Instead, they adjourned without advancing a single redistricting proposal.”
Wu called Georgia's decision an encouraging sign of a coordinated effort among southern Democrats that could influence political debate across the South.
“In the past, the ‘Southern Strategy’ was a movement designed to divide communities, to consolidate power in the conservative South, and take power away from minority communities,” Wu said. “This ‘New Southern Strategy’ is our effort to unite the South, to unite our communities and to say we’re not going back to Jim Crow.”
But toppling conservative control in the South will be an uphill struggle for Democrats. Republicans are deeply entrenched and have dominated elections there for decades. Redistricting congressional lines in many of these southern states will only exacerbate the Democratic effort to win seats.
Still, the coalition’s name is a deliberate reference to the Republican “Southern Strategy” used in the 1960s. It was a political plan that historians say helped Republicans flip southern states from total Democratic control by capitalizing on white Southern voters who opposed the Civil Rights movement.
Wu said this new coalition will build support across racial, religious and economic lines.
“It’s going to be Latinos, it’s going to be Asians, it’s going to the Black community, it's going to be working class white people, it's going to be Muslims and Jews and everybody else,” Wu said. “We’re stronger when we’re together.”
Though Wu insists that unity is essential, Texas Democrats still do not appear to have fully unified as the midterm elections approach in November.
U.S. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has yet to endorse Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico after their bitter primary election in March.
In addition, neither Crockett nor Colin Allred, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congressional District 33, will attend the Texas Democratic Convention next week in Corpus Christi.
“I can't speak for Jasmine or anybody else,” Wu said. “All I can tell you is that the people on the ground, the activists, the workers, the people who just joined as volunteers… they're determined.”
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““It’s going to be Latinos, it’s going to be Asians, it’s going to the Black community, it’s going to be working class white people, it’s going to be Muslims and Jews and everybody else,” Wu said. “We’re stronger when we’re together.”
No Americans? Figures. I am so fatigued by all this.
““...It’s going to be... Muslims and Jews...”
I don’t think he completely /groks/ that you can’t put both of those together. The former is an obligate carnivore that sees the latter as prey.
Yep. Sure is.
Those “activists” are vile.
No doubt got a directive from the Soros Borg collective. Make trouble or the money goes elsewhere.
Interesting, because Latinos increasingly support Republicans, the Democrats have instituted discrimination against Asians in education, have declared war against whites at all levels, and cheer for genocide against Jews.
It would be a damned country with Wu in charge.
Not a chance.
NOTHING can save the DemoKKKrat Terror Party. I’ve studied political history for 40 years and watched the historical collapse of the Federalists and the Whigs, each for different but somewhat similar reasons: they simply lost all value for ordinary people.
The DemoKKKrat Terror Party wants to kill you and your family: this is the message that, no matter what they try to do, comes through again and again. No one says it out loud, the same way people cross the street if they see a gang of ferals coming up their side of the street, and they won’t say anything “racist,” but they will ACT nonetheless. Rs will hold the House in Nov with about 222 seats, hold the senate, J.D. Vance will crush Cackles or whomever else the DemoKKKrat Terror Party puts up in 2028 by 320-340 EVs and win the pop vote by more than 2% and DemoKKKrats will never, ever recover. They may hang on as a regional party in CA/WA/OR, IL, and NE, but they have lost the rest of the country because . . .
they want to kill you and your family. And people know it.
Target-rich environment.
Hah! He's a real-life, literal Manchurian Candidate!
Agree. 100%. Same is true of anyone who votes for a democRAT.
I see no exceptions for politicians ... even if they appear not to be scum personally ... they choose to associate with scum, they promote a scum "party", and they stand on that party's scum platform. They're scum.
As to the voters ... either they're scum themselves, or they're too bloody ignorant to be voting.
Ossaf lost his primary. He’s out.
“Ossaf lost his primary. He’s out.”
Odd. The reason I remembered his name was I had several YouTube commercials from him this morning. I’m guessing he’s letting them run to collect as much money as possible.
BTW, his was the most frequent YouTube commercial I’m getting.
“DALLAS — After 60 years of Republican domination in southern states, a new coalition of Democrats is eager to end GOP control in the South.”
Satan’s Army never rests.
It will probably be a very ugly strategy to breed division and hatred exploiting replacement immigration, race, and continuing to portray America to immigrants as a nation to be overcome and replaced with a new one that isn’t evil, Christian, and fascist.
Hey! Can someone explain to me how to bet against this on one of those new-fangled “prediction platforms?”
He is soliciting everywhere. Where he is getting money for such a campaign I have no idea. We are even seeing solicitations Here in Oklahoma By the guy.
Okay, once they’re gathered in one one spot nuk’em.
From orbit just to be sure.🤔
Bad news for Wu. Georgia will most certainly be redistricting after the midterms. 😉
No Americans? Figures. I am so fatigued by all this.
I concur. Interesting that the only group where work is even mentioned is “white people”.
Nyet. Soviets? DA!
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