Hashed and rehashed. Old, old, old.
You don’t know anything about Texas’ political history or else you deliberately falsify.
Texas was late coming to the Republican Party. All of Texas. Not just a few people and not just Rick Perry.
Phil Gramm was a House Democrat who helped Reagan pass his bills, only later becoming a Republican. He was an economics college teacher before changing.
John Connally became a Republican. He was a long time, powerful Democrat affiliated with LBJ. But he changed.
Ralph Hall of the House of Representatives, was a long time Dem with the most Conservative voting record in the House, bar none, until as a white haired elderly man he finally changed to GOP. He voted “present” rather than vote for Pelosi and her ilk while a Dem. He voted against bailouts and debt ceiling raises, etc, just recently.
Zell Miller of GA will die a Dem, because his father would never understand if he became a Republican. But he votes conservative and campaigns for select Republicans.
Texas is Dem by TRADITION, going back for generations. Rural TX was especially wedded to Dems. The Republicans were forever associated in their minds with Herbert Hoover and the Depression, and with Reconstruction after the Civil War.
Only gradually, and in fits and starts, did it come around but it came.
You want to assign something to Rick Perry, who is from one of the most rural and traditional counties in TX, something that applies to an entire state.
Wise up, or just drop the foolishness.
Your points are very well taken. To back up your comments, Rick Perry was the very 1st REPUBLICAN Lt.Governor elected in the state of Texas. Ever.
Wow, amazing history you have there.
Yep.
See my #23.