Texas is about 21% Catholic, and is number one in number of Evangelicals, and third in Catholics, behind California and New York.
Posted on 05/28/2014 7:06:58 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
AUSTIN (AP) - State Sen. Dan Patrick has defeated three-term incumbent David Dewhurst for the Republican nomination for Texas lieutenant governor.
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“Even in cities, the “city” and surrounding areas are not always the same. The Houston city limit is drawn in a very erratic way to avoid bringing conservative voters inside the city limits.”
So they are gerrymandering city limits! My guess is though, that the “conservatives living outside the city limits” prefer to remain outside them.
50 years ago California was know as a social liberal state and everything goes, while Texas was known as a social conservative and right wing state.
Tonight is Wed. night. Many Texans will be at prayer services tonight. It's just the way Texas is. When I was Director of Operations for an ISP, you could tell when church was in session by the drop in traffic network wide.
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There are as many or more (depending on how you define "Evangelical"), Catholics as/than Evangelicals in Texas.
Texas is about 21% Catholic, and is number one in number of Evangelicals, and third in Catholics, behind California and New York.
More of your unsubstantiated bullshit based on your hatred of all things Catholic.
"Texas is about 21% Catholic, and is number one in number of Evangelicals, and third in Catholics, behind California and New York."
Texas is closer to 30% Catholic.
What set you off, seeing the word Evangelical?
Do you think it is the Catholics who vote democrat and destroyed California, who makes Texas republican, instead of the most republican voters in America, the Evangelicals, and the Protestants, who are also a republican voting group?
Being about 18 or 21% Catholic, a religious group that we know votes mostly democrat, Texas conservatism is based naturally on it’s protestant population and it’s large number of Evangelicals.
There are more Protestants than Catholics in California.
"Being about 18 or 21% Catholic, a religious group that we know votes mostly democrat, Texas conservatism is based naturally on it’s protestant population and it’s large number of Evangelicals."
Pfft, now its 18%? Catholics make up 28-30% of the Texas population. Look it up you ignoramous, instead of making up your own progressively lower numbers to suit your agenda.
I have looked it up, the Texas almanac listed 21.2%, a religious data source listed 18%, either way, they would be part of the democrat voting block.
Seriously, you don’t think that social conservatism and Evangelicals are the core reason for Texas conservatism?
You ignored how Catholics vote in California and how they destroyed the state, and how the left depends on them to take Texas, and what is with the name calling?
“”During the 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles was a bastion of Anglo Protestantism, reflecting the values of Midwestern parishioners who had been carried to the Southland on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Well into the 1970s, Protestant denominational leaders enjoyed comfortable, influential ties with the city is still-strong “downtown business
establishment,” which itself was largely Protestant.
The Immigration Act of 1965, however, created the condition for a radically different religious future for the City of Angels-a future that would anoint Roman Catholicism as the area’s dominant religious group. Today Roman Catholicism is the single largest faith tradition in Los Angeles County, with 294 parishes and 3,631,368 adherents.
Among Christians, 71% are Catholics. Between 1980 and 1997, Roman Catholicism experienced a 36% growth.””
"You ignored how Catholics vote in California and how they destroyed the state, and how the left depends on them to take Texas, and what is with the name calling?"
More of your nonsense. You keep repeating over and over that Catholics destroyed this state or will destroy that state and always vote democrat, and never provide a lick of evidence, except that some states have become more liberal and according to you that MUST be related, somehow, someway, to Catholics.
“Simply electing TP/Conservative has done nothing toward fixing the problems we have, especially with illegals.”
Well this is Primary season, perhaps if you wait until Patrick is actually in office as Lt. Governor, then it might make sense to comment on his (and the TP’s) effectiveness.
As of now, only RINOs have been running the show.
The more Catholic voters in Texas, means the more republican voters are needed to overcome them.
You really don’t know that Catholics voted for Obama both times, and have always voted democrat in America with only 4 to 5 exceptions depending on the source?
You have made several posts now implying that Catholics in Texas vote republican, is that your claim?
There is a reason that the left salivates over importing Catholics by the millions.
In an election heavy with life issues, look at the Catholic vote.
“50 years ago California was know as a social liberal state and everything goes, while Texas was known as a social conservative and right wing state.”
And you were here in California 50 years ago?
My dad and mother lived and owned a garage, gas station, cafe here in the 1940s, my older brother was born here, my mother’s family almost all lived here, I had visited here before the 50 years, and had my own first apartment in California 45 years ago, I know a little about it.
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