Say Goodbye to Texas

Takimag ^ | 6/24/19 | Jim Goad

[ek_hornbeck]

I always liked the idea of Texas—a massive, arrogant, sun-scorched, red-blooded homeland for impenitent cattle rustlers who provided a cultural counterpoint to the sniffly, snobby classes of the Eastern seaboard. Back when America was all about expansion rather than retreat, Texas was far more American than anything you could scrape up from either coastline.

[ek_hornbeck]

In the early 1970s, Texas was around 70% non-Hispanic white and roughly 20% Hispanic. If current trends continue, within the next ten years it will be about 35% white and 40% Hispanic.

The rest of Goad's article contains examples of La Raza types gloating over the demographic and political shifts in Texas, in response to a Texas Tribune article documenting these demographic changes, e.g.

Hispanics to Senator Corny: Orale [pray], homes. We’re taking over!

Can’t wait until they outnumber you and vote blue en masse!

Oh but it’s coming and it’ll be great when it does #yeswewillreplaceyou

In other words, if California of 50 years ago was like the Texas in the year 2000 (solidly conservative and representative of the rest of middle America), then Texas in about 20 years will be much like what California is today - Mexican masses ruled by a small liberal elite.

[Bulwyf]

Unless there are some drastic changes.

[Sans-Culotte]

Not just Texas. We’re at the southern border, so the wave hits us first. The Reconquista will gradually stretch all the way to Canada.

[Destroyer Sailor]

But Texas is not California. It is closer to the demographic center of the US. It’s history is much more different than California. Predictions are also known as guesses so we will wait and see.

[bk1000]

“Oh but it’s coming and it’ll be great when it does #yeswewillreplaceyou”

When you replace us, who is going to pay for all your free crap? You will turn it into a shithole just like the one you came from, and somehow it will be the white man’s fault. Of this, I have zero doubt. Enjoy yourself, esay.

[ek_hornbeck]

But Texas is not California. It is closer to the demographic center of the US. It’s history is much more different than California. Predictions are also known as guesses so we will wait and see.

Some predictions are random guesses. Others are educated guesses based on extrapolation of current trends. The current trend is an increasingly Mexicanized population with all of the social and cultural dysfunction that entails, combined with a leftward political shift (20 years ago, a candidate like O'Rourke coming within about 3 percentage points of unseating a conservative incumbent Senator would have been unthinkable).

[bgill]

My little oasis in the Hill Country of TX as recent as 10 years ago was realitively quiet and unspoiled. I could drive 20 miles to town and count on one hand the number of cars we passed. Yesterday, just driving 5 miles, there was so much bumper to bumper traffic that I came home and cried. Our little rural neighborhood road is difficult to get down due to all the vehicles parked on both sides and all the new construction. This was supposed to be our last home but what used to be so peaceful and quiet has turned into Times Square. Sadly, due to all the new liberal rules and regulations placed on every little thing we’re allowed to do and not do on our own property, we’re looking to move. Problem is where is where can we live peacefully anymore.

ICE could pick up a bus load of illegals on every corner but they can’t be bothered. Ten years ago, our kid came home from school to ask why there were so many Mexicans (illegals) suddenly in school. I had students tell me all cartels back in Mexico and others who failed to see why they had to come here legally. This “crisis at the border” has been here much longer than last week.

[magna carta]

I drove to Austin for many sessions at the lege dealing with all the IA invasion issues. Giving testimony to support E-Verify, eliminate instate tuition (that many RINOs and cheap labor supporters backed), and sanctuary city bills...late into the night.
It seemed impossible for patriots to win anything on this issue.
Now we see these Tx pols hysterical on Fox news as we begin to crumble from invasion. THEY WAITED TOO LATE & SUPPORTED CHEAP OPEN LABOR FOR THEIR PAYMASTERS!!!!

[TADSLOS]

This “crisis at the border” has been here much longer than last week.

Yep.

[LouAvul]

Not to worry. The wetbacks will take charge. Then those ignorant wretches will turn everything to crap, like they always do. Then they'll be begging the white man to come in and fix it.

Except by then, the only crackers left will likely be in Poland. Or Hungary?

They'll come in and fix it, but it's gonna be expensive.

[bgill]

Have you not been to Austin, Dallas, San Antonio or Houston? Kalifornicans have invaded our once great state with their liberal ideas. There are a great many illegals and foreigners than there ever has been. You can’t go to the grocery store without thinking you’re in a turd world country with all the non-English gibberish and little heathens running wild climbing on the shelves and eating from this and that container that will be bought by some unsuspecting person.

[Cowboy Bob]

I've been to Houston recently, after being away about 25 years. What a change! In some parts of the city, you think you're in Bombay. In other parts, you'd think you were somewhere in the Middle East - half the women are wearing head-scarfs. What the hell happened?

[magna carta]

It seems many Texans (mostly Houston Dallas retirees) are headed to places like Tyler. Good medical setup and pretty mid-sized town. I inherited a very old historic home there (said by many to be Tyler’s oldest). Talking with people there over the last 3 years as we pick slowly on this project there are many coming there. They have IA’s but not as many.
My husband found a really good deal on raw acreage near Mount Enterprise.
Prolly not as cool as living in Hill Country (bless your heart) but it is much less populous-Lots of BAPTISTS.

[magna carta]

yes I agree...but remember the IRS will still tax us even as we flee

[SMARTY]

It will become ‘Rhodesia’ of the N hemisphere

[magna carta]

Don’t get me started

[G Larry]

Whites continue to abort and contracept themselves out of existence.

[ek_hornbeck]

There's a strong case to be made that there's a correlation between political/economic liberty and the existence of wide open spaces and frontier country. The less densely populated a place is, the less likely you are to have the kind of social problems that invite government bureaucrats to come and say "we're here to help" (and for things to get so bad that the public is willing to accept that "help").

So there are two things going on - as places get more densely populated, they become more regulated. Second, there's the question of where that increased population is coming from. In the case of Texas and Arizona, that increased population seems to be made up primarily of Mexicans and liberals fleeing the states/societies that they've already ruined, with absolutely no desire to change their ways once they arrive there.

[ek_hornbeck]

You can’t go to the grocery store without thinking you’re in a turd world country with all the non-English gibberish and little heathens running wild climbing on the shelves and eating from this and that container that will be bought by some unsuspecting person.

Another disgusting habit that I see among Mexicans and other Third World people in stores is to take things off shelves or clothing racks, look at them, and then throw them on the floor rather than replacing them. Then it's time to step outside and throw their kid's soiled diaper out into the parking lot or sidewalk, even though there's a trash can within a couple of yards.

[Dr. Sivana]

My subsequent trips through Texas—and they’re almost always through, never with the intent of staying an hour longer than I needed to—give me the impression it’s the world’s most overdeveloped shopping mall.

Mr. Goad makes a big mistake by equating his trips through Texas with knowing Texas and Texans. He lives in Stone Mountain, Texas, a town that jas been through some more dramatic demographic shifts of its own, but Stone Mountain and the Atlanta metro area by itself are not Georgia. In like wise the I-20 corridor is not Texas.

I just moved from Georgia to Phoenix myself, and know that all three states are undergoing demographic shifts. Goad's mistake, in my opinion, is letting professional La Raza types speak for Mexicans at large, and assuming that the Mexian voting bloc is as monolithic as the black voting bloc. Many of the Mexican-descended here in Phoenix have more in common with the Italian-descended of my old home state of Connecticut in the '70s. They are not all Marxist or Socialist. Many would laugh at Alexandria Orcasio-Cortez if they bothered to follow politics.

We know that George the Younger made in-roads in vote count, and President Trump has had polling numbers that made the Anglo-ruling class members of the mass media scratch their heads.

The answer is simple. You have to respect Americans descended from Mexicans as people, and act as if you want their vote. You do NOT have to pander to them. And you certainly don't have to be effeminate. Nor support lawlessness.

This did not happen in California, and it is gone as a result. The first wave of elite northeasterners who moved to Texas, Florida and the Carolinas in the '70s adapted culturally somewhat, annd changed their voting patterns to match their new location. That doesn't happen if the growth is too fast, or too concentrated in one area (e.g. Austin, TX), but the profile of the people who move from the northeast to South Carolina is different than the one of those who move from Boston to New Hampshire, or New York to Vermont. Yes, there will be come trouble-making Yankees in the mix, but the Phoenix, Arizona are is itself overwhelmingly made up of people from other parts of the country, and while Phoenix itself is left of center, Scottsdale, Mesa, Tempe, etc. are not.

Some percentage of those who relocate to Texas were already conservative, even if they had been in liberal bastions. Some percentage of Latino Texans are just fine with President Trump. We cannot be afraid of conservative states growing in numbers, assuming every refugee is going to bring Massachusetts values with him. Sometimes being among conservatives helps shape the man over time. President Trump himself, I believe, has been influenced in this way even though he is as New York as they come, and will be unlikely to slog through a tome of Edmund Burke or Alexis de Tocqueville.

We have to build through our families, churches and civic groups, and be confident that we can appeal to newcomers on our own terms. If not, then it doesn't matter in the long term where we go.