Chop off Houston and give it to Lousiana (or just make it inhospitable and they will migrate over to Louisiana), then Texas is ready to be its own country. And Texans view themselves more as Texans than they do as Americans. Have you been there? I lived there from 2001 - 2003.
They love their guns, God, and large pickup trucks.
The food stamps correlate with inner city mess and frankly with African Americans in the South (and the "cheap white trash" that has joined with them) whose work ethic was destroyed by the welfare system. Before welfare, the negros were hard working. After, they sat around the porch, got drunk, and the females produced entire absentee father(less) families (with numerous fathers per female).
This is not racist. This is a fact.
I was born in New Orleans and I attended those inner city public schools. I know first hand the situation. I've driven through Houston several times. Don't get me wrong, the majority of African Americans have elevated themselves with college education, etc.., and they will be welcome to migrate to the New Republic of Texas. I was so pleasantly shocked when I was at the UNO library in 1991 to see so many studious African American students.
So I see mass migration where conservatives move to majority conservative States that crack down and defect. And liberals migrating to the liberal States.
Yeah disintegration of the USA into regions.
Humans want self-determination. It is viewed as a fundamental right.
I live two hours from Dallas. While what you say about Texas was defiantly true 10 to 15 years ago and still is to some extent it's rapidly changing. Due to the high price of housing & taxes in California a LOT of people & businesses have migrated to Dallas. People are coming in droves and buying houses with cash. Of course their west coast liberalism with them. If you go to south Texas far enough (Laredo) Spanish is more common than English. Austin has become ground zero for the new hipster capitol of the world.
What you say is still true - but less so and will continue to shrink over the next decade. I did make a trip down the i35 corridor to Austin a few several weeks ago & the road construction and growth is absolutely insane. There was a big music concert and apparently Obama showed up to try to explain to all the hipsters why it was necessary for Apple to build the FBI a program to decrypt the iphone. Hipsters were astonished and felt terrible that Obama was uninformed ... they were sure he didn't understand what he was asking for.
A pity that (all the hipsters and FSA moving in), to lose the
one seriously large state that is independent minded. They flee California, Illinois, New York..., yet they instantly want to Californicate the place, to make it "just like home". My best friend still lives in Houston, he is beginning to hate it now...
I would
NOT have guessed that the young hipsters know so little about what liberty and freedom are really all about. Such naivete voting for 0bama.
Guess we're screwed. <=== Hey, that's why I started this thread!
Yeah I made a post recently about how the subprime lending is back in the suburbs around Austin, as there are lower-income, no-down loans for new suburbs springing up like wild flowers with good schools.
But these people apparently have jobs. Thus they are the working class, not the food stamps class.
When the interest rates head up, they lose their house and their jobs in the global economic contagion, many of them are not going to vote to raise their own State taxes. Texas has no income tax.
Latinos are hard working and many of them are not into the food stamp class.
I think we will find that Texas will roll up its sleeves and get to work, and not agree to tax themselves to death. I think Texas will choose to offer incentives for hi-tech firms to relocate there and lower taxes, instead of raising them. I think they will perhaps declare Obamacare null and void within Texas, so companies will relocate there.
It is going to be interesting to observe what happens.
I think the people who left California understand California is broken. These people are proactive enough and don't just sit in California and leech the system. Who would leave the wonderful climate of California for that inferno of Texas if not because they realize California is horribly broken.
The boomer hippies moved from California to Oregon and Washington State. These are the diehard socialists, but they also have a work ethic which may be their saving grace if they loose their bleeding heart for supporting the food stamp class nationwide.
The X gens (and Millennials) are moving to Texas. This is my generation. We are much more pragmatic.
My X generation is going to make its mark finally by saying "enough!" to the boomers being in control. We've always had to be independent because the boomers abandoned us.
Mexico is one of the strongest economies going forward. I think we can see Texas and Mexico in economic synergies. Texas is well set up to be the most economically buoyant area of the United States. i think they will realize as the shit hits the fan, they don't want the rest of the USA parasiting on Texas.
I think when Hellary steals the election, that will be the wake up call.
Edit:
In his book, Fast Future, author David Burstein describes Millennials' approach to social change as "pragmatic idealism," a deep desire to make the world a better place combined with an understanding that doing so requires building new institutions while working inside and outside existing institutions.
A 2014 poll for the libertarian Reason magazine suggested that US Millennials were social liberals and fiscal centrists more often than their global peers. The magazine predicted that millennials would become more conservative on fiscal issues once they started paying taxes.
Don't mistake the social issues liberalism of Millennials with their fiscal conservatism. They chose Texas instead of the NorthWet because they want to do it differently than their boomer parents who have taken control over the NorthWet (Oregon and WA State).
