tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post7179537918400183580..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: Texas: The Gulag Wasteland Bush Left BehindAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-87155159113763622382008-11-17T15:23:00.000-08:002008-11-17T15:23:00.000-08:00Semantics! Semantics! Texas segregationists were r...Semantics! Semantics! <BR/><BR/>Texas segregationists were really Republicans all along. Richard Nixon proved that. It was called "Southern Strategy". <BR/><BR/>Now ---can we confine the disucssion of Democrats to REAL Democrats in a real world. <BR/><BR/>Texas was stolen from Mexico by bigots who wanted to keep slaves. Even earlier it had been stolen FROM my ancestors whom I believe had FIRST TITLE <BR/><BR/>OK?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-45355174084570588142008-11-17T13:50:00.000-08:002008-11-17T13:50:00.000-08:00Be careful invoking that "Lyndon Johnson STOLE the...Be careful invoking that "Lyndon Johnson STOLE the election of 1948* story.<BR/><BR/> The facts are - it was the DEMOCRATIC primary - the home of TEXAS SEGREGATIONISTS - and Johnson's opponent in the 1948 Texas Dem. senatorial primary was COKE STEVENSON, uber Texas establishment segregationist FORMER GOVERNOR of the State of Texas. (i.e. no "innocent Annie.")<BR/> Further, Johnson had been ROBBED in his previous election race - by the usual Texas CORRUPTION in voting methods - and in 1948, (with the legacy of being one of President Roosevelt's star, up-and-coming progressive Democrat Congressman behind him) Johnson vowed never to let the Reactionary Right-Wing in Texas ever steal another election from him.<BR/><BR/> To pound this point home, the ONLY way the Reactionary Right in Texas (up till 1970s mostly within the Democratic Party) could win elections, was by DISENFRANCHISING tens of thousands upon millions of Black, minority, and even poor White voters. (See how poor WHITES were DISENFRANCHISED in Huey Long's Louisiana until Long became a populist muckracker.) <BR/><BR/> WHENVER a "Liberal" commentator uses the "JOHNSON WON WITH DEAD MEN's VOTES!" story, he/she is WHITEWASHING the SERIAL BIGOTRY and VIOLENT SEGREGATION race hatred of Johnson's opponent(s).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-19381897230022445102008-01-03T06:52:00.000-08:002008-01-03T06:52:00.000-08:00Why don't we just solve a lot of problems at one s...Why don't we just solve a lot of problems at one stroke by giving Texas back to Mexico!<BR/><BR/>It's like cutting out a large cancer. Yes, you lose a little weight, but overall, you're a LOT better off! (Think where we might have been now if there had been no Cheney and no Dubya in the 2000 elections and the actual winners had taken office: no Iraq war, a lot of progress on the environment, a massively better economic situation and so much more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-72079237864583383672008-01-03T06:09:00.000-08:002008-01-03T06:09:00.000-08:00Well, Texas would have been better, because the Bu...Well, Texas would have been better, because the Bush family would have stayed in Connecticut or landed in some other unfortunate state. <BR/><BR/>The Bushes have almost single handedly ruined this state. So please don't blame Texas. The only Texans the Bushes really like are the Haves and the Have Mores. The Bush family political philosophy was forged in the Northeast. They are modern day carpetbaggers.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621651940551125528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-45114262847841355122008-01-02T15:23:00.000-08:002008-01-02T15:23:00.000-08:00Thanks, Diane...Texas was never perfecct. But it w...Thanks, Diane...Texas was never perfecct. But it was a lot better before the carpetbagger Bush showed up. And it was better before it was ruined by oil.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-22258375751491884642008-01-02T10:19:00.000-08:002008-01-02T10:19:00.000-08:00What a wonderful article, you are right it would h...What a wonderful article, you are right it would have been better for the Country if the South and Texas, had gone their own way!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com