FerrisBueller86
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« on: March 05, 2005, 02:00:53 AM » |
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Why has Texas become so right-wing over the decades? Today, it's best known as the home state of George W. Bush. Ann Richards used to be the governor. The liberal icon LBJ came from Texas.
In 1968, Hubert Humphrey managed to carry Texas but still lose the election even though it was neither his home state nor that of Muskie. While this was LBJ's home state, LBJ was so unpopular that he decided not to run. Clinton was much more popular in 2000 than LBJ was in 1968, yet Gore lost in both his own home state and in Clinton's home state.
The way things are today, no Democratic presidential candidate could carry Texas in anything short of a landslide victory.
One thing seems to be constant, though. If you don't like long, bloody wars, think twice about electing Texans as president.
So what changed since 1968 to change Texas from a liberal state to a right-wing one?
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