[Bubba_Leroy]

From Reconstruction until the early 1990s, Texas was a two party state: Conservative Democrats and Liberal Democrats. There were virtually no Republicans elected to statewide office and Democrats held a consistent majority in both houses of the state legislature.

1994 was pretty much the turning point. Since then, all of the conservative Democrats have become Republicans.

I am not enthusiastic about Rick Perry, but I am not holding it against him that he was a Texas Democrat in the 1980s.

[DoughtyOne]

Okay, I’m going to take you at your word here.

Let’s think of it this way. If men of character had taken a look at the Democrat party and switched, would we be talking about that dynamic as late as the 90s?

I don’t think so. Rick did change in 1989. It’s my premise that there was plenty of cause as early as the 1972 time frame. After McGovern? Heavens. That guy was a fruit basket of Marxism.