The DLC's Failed Southern Strategy and Understanding Southern Society

[Gothmog]

2. From a Texas Democrat, your post is sad and wrong

In Texas, the route to be a blue state involves things like motivating Hispanic voters. If Hispanic voters in Texas voted in the same percentages as in California, then Texas would be a blue state. The Texas GOP knows this which is why they are defending their voter id law.

According to a study by Rice University/The Baker Institute and the University of Houston, the Texas voter id law suppressed the vote in one congressional race by 5.8% to 12.8% with the best guess at 9%. http://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/06/study-law-discouraged-more-those-without-voter-id/ If these people had voted in 2014, the race would have been closer and may have turned out differently.

Instead writing off the South, some of us are working to change things. I have been working with the state party on voter id issues and I will continue to fight to turn Texas blue even if that upsets some Sanders supporters

BTW, Texas has 270+ delegates to the DNC. Do you want to guess how many of those delegats will supporting Hillary Clinton???

Finally, I am watching to see with the Texas redistricting case comes down. We were hoping for an opinion soon in that case were we are fighting the extreme gerrymandering of the TX gop