A little encouragement from registering voters in Texas
During all-day registration events Saturday a man and a woman in their 60s registered for the first time. Today during National Voter Registration Day registration with the LWV at our local public library a 72-year-old woman registered, also for the first time. She said her girlfriends would be mad if she didn't. She told me the reason she hadn't voted before was that she though all politicians were bought and that her vote wouldn't count.
The last encouraging incident was a Korean veteran stopping by our registration booth to talk. He's going on an honor flight next week and wanted to urge us to watch the news on Austin news next week. But it got interesting as he commented about Trump's insults of John McCain. He despised Trump it was clear.
He wasn't a native Texan so not sure if his Yankee heritage might have made him more open to a liberal point of view. Any way, I was encouraged t see three people whe never had bee involved in voting before do so this time.
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I have heard the word Yankee but only in Gone With The Wind and the baseball team. Who are "yankees" and who uses the word and in what context (I am curious about this oddity to me).
