I think most Southerners underestimate -- have no idea -- how much wealthy and Eastern Republicans despise and loathe them. Their loathing has more levels than La Scala. And it goes back to the 17th century.
The GOP-E threw two elections just to get rid of employer-paid healthcare. So you've no idea what they'll do to make sure someone like Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee or Richard Shelby never sees the inside of the White House.
“I think most Southerners underestimate — have no idea — how much wealthy and Eastern Republicans despise and loathe them.”
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Well, I think I do. The divide is old and associated with lots of scars. The independence of the West, most of it based on oil and agriculture, drives them insane crazy.
A friend of mine worked for Republic Bank (1st chartered business in TX, named: “The Republic of Texas” in the charter), the one that went down in a long ago oil slump. He told me that bank had been self financing with oil money and never went to East Coast Banks for help. Consequently, they got caught in the slump and the vultures descended. A cousin of mine was a stockholder, they were told they were insolvent and the major stockholders pumped a ton of money into it, not many months later they were in the same situation. They eventually failed and East Coast elements took it over. It did not work out well for them either. They did not have the necessary humanity to deal with Texas customers.
And as far back as the entry of Texas into the U.S. it was similar. Those same interests did not like anything that threatened their power.
Headshake. Here we are again, similar circumstance.