Posted on 08/19/2009 10:45:36 AM PDT by freespirited
Texas' identity as a solid "red" state is unlikely to change any time soon.
According to a new Gallup Poll, 43 percent of Lone Star State residents identify as "conservatives" while just 16 percent identify as "liberals." Thirty-six percent of respondents described themselves as "moderates," in the poll of more than 9,100 Texans.
The most conservative state is Alabama, where 49 percent of residents are solidly conservative, followed by Mississippi, Utah and Louisiana. The most liberal state is Massachusetts where 29 percent of people identify as liberal, followed by Vermont, Oregon and Washington. In Washington D.C., 37 percent of respondents identified as liberal.
The poll's margin of error is between 3 points and 7 points.
Actually, in the 2008 election, Utah and Nebraska did have at least one “blue” county. Obama even won one of Nebraska’s split electoral votes. Only Oklahoma had all “red” counties.
AMEN!!
Don't forget our neighbor, Oklahoma. They went solid red for McCain/Palin in '08.
Yikes, you’re right. It was 2000 and 2004 that Utah was all red. Still, both Utah and Nebraska have much higher Repub percentages than Texas does. I think voting results say more than polls.
The left will treat full, formal, enforced assertion of the 10th amendment as secession. It’ll have to come to that, because the courts will rule against states’ rights in every case.
Dang. How could I forget that. Three cheers for Oklahoma. It’s really embarrassing that Salt Lake and Summit counties in Utah went blue, but there’s been a big influx of out-of-staters moving to Utah to escape the results of their filthy Rat party’s policies. Naturally they bring their degraded liberal policies here with them and immediately work to ruin their new home.
Texas is an incredibly large and diverse state, Utah isn’t, in fact it is led by a single, let’s call it a “well controlled” religious group, the population is less than 3 million and it is only 1% black.
Nebraska has less than 2 million people and less than 5% blacks.
Texas has 23 million and is only 47% white.
Texas has a very natural culture of conservatism.
Everywhere but Texas, “moderate” means no core principles. In Texas, “moderate” means only carrying one gun, no holdout pistol.
- JP
I like the headline, but what people say and how they vote is not always the same. Dallas, Houston and Austin are all run by liberals. Dallas elected a lesbian sherrif and replaced every republican in our court system in the last election. Houston may soon have a lesbian as their mayor and Austin is the home of more liberals than you can imagine. San Antonio has been in the hands of Democrats for 25 years. If it was not for the suburbs and the rural areas of TX sending conservatives to government we would be in big big trouble.
I disagree. As long as we are forced to live under liberal fascism we will not be free. The sooner secession happens, the sooner the path back to freedom can begin. The federal government will never allow the 10th Amendment to be enforced. The Supreme Court of un-elected black-robed tyrants has already ruled that the Commerce Clause trumps all states rights. Texas is one of the few places where freedom still has any support. The rest of the country s content to be governemtn slaves. Please secede Texas, please.
I guarantee you that any state that actually stands up and asserts its rights under the 10th Amendment will not be stopped from doing so by the federal government. What are the feds going to do -- send in the US military to forcibly subjugate that populace? I hardly think so.
Especially not with a state as large as Texas is.
Texas, or any other state for that matter, could easily force a capitulation on the part of Washington, if they simply refused to continue to do business in an unconstitutional manner.
Asserting states' rights under the 10th Amendment is the proper first gradient to re-establishing the proper constitutional role of the federal government.
Actually, it's the second gradient. The first gradient of passing 10th Amendment resolutions at the state level has already been done by several states. The next proper gradient is delivering a formal 10th Amendment declaration to the feds.
You may be correct. I think the US military will support Free America. But the feds will use the IRS and other agencies to quash it. In an case, it’s worth a shot to attempt a 10th Amendment move, even if it is 70 years late.
The IRS and every other gov't alphabet agency will be largely inconsequential if a full-scale rebellion of the American people breaks out.
...it’s worth a shot to attempt a 10th Amendment move.
I totally believe that asserting our 10th Amendment rights is the proper first gradient to righting our ship of state.
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