Yeah, but...the statehouses build the districts. It will be a net gain of seats, no doubt.
Didn’t take long for the liberal media to find a way to spin the results.....
You really think that Texas is going to turn blue again in the near future? Cuz I don’t see it happening.
Urbanization=liberalization=dhimmicrat drones
We will never be a colorblind society because it works to control people and gather power. I’m so sick of it I could just puke.
20 years of “Californication” have turned Washington State from purple to dark blue.
But while the map is getting redder, the red states themselves may are getting bluer, especially Texas, which was the huge winner with a net pickup of 4 seats. This chart is from the state of Texas. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where the population growth has come from, and where it's going (hint: the growth is not coming from the GOP Anglo base).
This Rat can choke on his rant. Sounds like he doesn't like white people and that is bigotry.
Chris Bell, DEMOCRAT, lost his seat in the House due to redistricting which put a BLACK DEMOCRAT into that district congressman.
Chris Bell and the Pravda Media then proclaimed that the last redistricting was "unfair" in that it put more Republicans into office (while ignoring what else was taken into consideration by the Republicans in drawing the new districts).
Chris Bell didn't lose his seat to a Republican when he threw a hissy fit and filed an "ethics charge" against Tom DeLay over fundraising.
The memes are bullstalin.
First: Texas Hispanics are being MORE conservative. For example, a majority Hispanic district in South Texas just dumped a long-time Hispanic incumbent for a Republican newcomer.
Hispanic Republicans have done well in a number of districts in South Texas at all levels of the government. If the GOP were to invest some time and effort recruiting and supporting good candidates, that trend will continue. There are many opportunities among the small businessmen, who are getting mugged by Democrat policies every day.
Second: while there is certainly a lot of growth in the Austin and D/FW area, it's occurring in suburbs, not the core cities. When the Democrats were able to gerry-mander districts and distribute their core constituents among multiple districts, they had the advantage. But, they don't have that advantage any longer.
Some of the metropolitans suburb in Texas can't get much more Republican. In mine, the Democrats don't even bother to field candidates.
Texas is growing. It's filling up with people fleeing Democrat regimes in other states like California. Once they get here, they are quickly discovering the freedom from income taxes. Property taxes are higher, but property values aren't stratospheric outside the handful of real-estate bubbles like Highland Park (in North Dallas).
You can actually buy a nice home in most of Texas without two professional incomes. And while some of the inner-city school systems are hell-holes, the suburban ones offer great opportunities to students that want to learn.
Uh, these very same states saw massive republican gains in elections held just a month ago. So whoever these population gains are they sure seem to vote conservative.
1. Close the barn door.
2. Deport, deport, deport.
All the census figures and projections include the illegal aliens within the US. Estimates are that around 1/3 of the Latinos in the US are illegal. If amnesty is not granted, and immigration law is enforced in the future, these projections will not come about as currently assumed.
And most know that is what the fight over comprehensive amnesty and the Dream Act and other amnesty schemes is all about.
Liberals flee the open sewers they have created and then vote the same way in the conservative safe havens they invade.
Writer is deluding himself. This was a systemic realignment sweeping victory for the gop. In texas the gop owns huge margins in each branch and the gov ofc. Just like dems have done for 60 plus years - concentrate the opposing party in safe seats and the vast majority of other seats will be gop.
What this shows is that the Mexico’s invasion of the Los Estados Unidos (Aztlan) is working.
So long as the aliens are illegal, or are all on work visas rather than working toward citizenship, it makes no difference, they just count for more votes.
It’s not like Texas almost went democrat this cycle or anything.
So, if one of the new seats goes democrat, and the other three go republican, that’s a net gain, given where those seats were taken from.
I’m assuming Texas has already played the gerrymander game as best they could, so I don’t expect to pick up seats that way.
...also, is the electoral college going to exist in 2012?