“Texas is a very different place, and Has a very different base mindset.”
Sorry, but you are dilusional! We thought California was “solid Repubican” back when Ronald Reagan was our governor and California was first in the nation in any category you can name. Back then, we thought California had “a very different base mindeset” too. Turns out, we were wrong, and so too are you. Like California, you are turning Mexican along your border with that shithole country, just like we did, and you have people who run things in your state who are beholden to your wealthy “republican” businessmen who like the cheap labor. Every year the RAT Mexicans will move into the majority further northward until they control enough counties to control the state. Here today, you can live in the far north or in the Sierras and still live a totally conservative lifestyle, what with concealed weapons permits and all that stuff just like Texas. But what the hell, as long as those of you who are there today get to live out your lives before the tide turns, it’s o.k., but what about your children and your grandchildren?
I would bet that the populations of all of the border counties in Texas do not add up to the population of the suburbs of Houston.
The Big Cities in Texas do not have the influence that they do in other States, it is the surrounding communities that the majority of people live in, they are the people who decide the direction of the state on a Local and National electoral basis.
And as of now and for the foreseeable future they are solidly conservative/republican.
Could it change?. Yes, but not anytime soon.
“...we thought California had “a very different base mindeset” too. Turns out, we were wrong...”
Yeah, you were wrong about Californians, and you’re wrong today about Texans. But I was wrong too, once upon a time.
As a native Californio of some fifty years residency, I think I know a thing or two about the mindset of people there, both past and present.
I’ve now been a Texas resident for ten years, and can tell you that Texas conservatives have a whole different mindset than their California cousins. It’s a cultural thing, and it’s very real.
I won’t lie to you - we’ve got a big problem with illegals here, though it’s nowhere near as bad as California. For one thing, our new Governor is doing ten times more to interdict illegal border crossers than Rick Perry ever did. It’s having an impact, but we need much stronger medicine.
For all our sakes, I hope and pray that Donald Trump is our next president, because he has made it his signature mission to build an impenetrable barrier along our southern border, and eject every illegal in the country. Above all else, it’s why the people made him the nominee.