Houston elected a Black Mayor 20 years ago, so it’s not a recent thing. A lot of these cities, though, haven’t exactly been bastions of Conservative Republicanism. To my knowledge, Houston has only elected 1 GOP Mayor since after Reconstruction, and that was 40 years ago. Most of Houston’s Mayors have sucked, so it’s par for the course.
As for Jackson-Lee, she’s been in Congress since 1994 in a district that has been sending far-left Black Dems since 1972 (starting with Barbara Jordan). Virtually every Black majority/plurality district (all Voting Rights Act-protected seats) send absolutely execrable individuals to office deviating almost none from the race-baiting professional victimist/Stalinist script with little exception. These folks aren’t there to lift up their constituents, but to protect their fiefdoms and keep their peeps perpetually angry and impoverished. What’s so utterly shocking is how long it has worked for, effectively now for 54 years in the South and 84 in the North.
“As for Jackson-Lee, she’s been in Congress since 1994 in a district that has been sending far-left Black Dems since 1972 (starting with Barbara Jordan).”
And yet most Texans don’t seem the least bit worried about their state turning blue! Texas is really not much different than California, in that it has large rural areas that are sparsely populated, and a group of very large RAT-run cities. But you need to couple with that the advancing Mexican RAT-run counties that border the Rio Grande. In that regard, Texas is different that California, because we have only two counties ( San Diego and Imperial) that have a common border with Mexico. Plus Texas has something on the order of 300 counties some of which aren’t much bigger than a three-car garage, and what I see now is that the counties that border Mexico are all Mexican RAT run and the next tier northward is also nearly all run by Mexican RATs. And yet Conservative Texans simply refuse to see the handwriting on the wall for their state.