Wow, PBS show on Kennedy shows how he was HATED in Texas

[Deja Q]

His critics would even buy space in the paper to openly berate him...

I can't even watch this anymore - have been for 15 minute and my hatred of repukes and Texans has shot up 300%. And I will never watch "King of the Hill" ever again.

Man, it would be nice if there was a state that was so openly hateful of Bush*. I might feel better than.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Hey! Not all of us are evil!

:hi:

[Deja Q]

7. Very true!

I just tend to get depressed very easily.

Just consider me the organic version of Marvin the Paranoid Android... (hope you're a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan... :D )

[GOPisEvil]

10. LOL! Marvin the paranoid android!

I need to re-read the guide - it's been too long.

Also remember that Kennedy was liked in other parts of the state. Dallas is...different. For instance, he spoke in San Antonio on Nov. 21st. I think he dedicated a school, which was later renamed Kennedy High School in his honor.

[mhr]

2. Trust Me I Know, I Live In Texas, We Have A Lot of Ignorant People Here

eom

[Darth_Kitten]

3. Heard accounts of schoolchildren....

(no doubt inspired by their elders) breaking into applause about the assassination. Anybody know anything about this? :shrug:

[burythehatchet]

5. I read on another thread that the reason was that the kids

first heard that they would have a half day off from school - they didn't know why

[hlthe2b]

6. not specifically, but I remember....

lots of adults in the midwest growing up, who disparaged him savagely-- largely because he was Catholic. I never understood the anti-catholic sentiments going on, and being quite young, learned not to ask (ditto issues of race during the desegragation period)...

[SiobhanClancy]

13. My dad showed me a cartoon..

in some paper back when Kennedy was elected. It was probably that hideous Manchester Union Leader,since we never had papers from other regions. It showed the Statue of Liberty with a rosary wrapped around it. I was very young,but I remember it very well...just as I remember how proud we all were(those of us who shared his ancestry and religion)that he was President.

[ablbodyed]

8. That happened....

Story quickly quashed

[doubleplusgood]

14. a girl from Texas in my grade school

...in the San Fernando valley was giggling & laughing upon hearing that Kennedy was dead, since that meant that a Texan, LBJ, was now president.

[argyl]

15. Iwas in grade school in Temple,Texas at the time and I witnessed this

behavior.And it was inspired by their parents.

[caledesi]

4. Having grown up in New England, I never knew about the hatred

thing at all. Guess we were insulated.

Now I have lived in Tampa for 15 years and my best friend told me hot hated he was here. I was shocked.

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. I hate Texas

but only because they beat my Nets last year.


*grumble grumble*

[madfloridian]

11. Anyone know this blog? Very good look at TX Repub Party.

At least, it seems pretty fair. I found it posted at the AARP site today, or at least it linked from something there.

http://www.calpundit.com/archives/002380.html
SNIP..." The heart and soul of Republican grass roots activism can be found pretty easily: it's in Texas. The New Model radical right took over the Texas Republican party a decade ago and elected George Bush governor. They have since taken over the entire state and propelled one of their own to the presidency and another to leadership of the House of Representatives. They bring a messianic fervor to their task, and after successfully taking over the second biggest state in the union their sights are now set on the entire country. This is not a fringe group. It is the biggest, most active, most energetic, and most determined segment of the Republican party today.

So it's fair to ask, what do they really want? Not what their public face is, and not what's politically feasible at the moment, but what are their goals? What kind of America do they want?

The answer is easy to come by if you really want to know, because the Texas Republican party regularly publishes a party platform. And like all true believers, they are very clear about what they want. So here it is: selected excerpts from the Texas Republican Party Platform of 2000. At the end of six years with George W. Bush at their helm, this was — and largely remains — their vision for America......"

Then it gives an interesting chart.

[economic justice]

12. The Northeast?

A lot of Democrats hate the Northeast. For standing up for all the wacky social issue crap that keeps Democrats from winning in the South. The social leftists have CO-OPTED our party and have doomed us in national elections. Without the wacky left we would have had a MUCH larger margin of victory than Gore had in 2000. I was born in the south, but live in the west. I am DISGUSTED by all the regional hate threads. The fact is, we are ALL in this mess TOGETHER!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. King of the Hill has something to do with that HOW?