Thinking about how every major city (except fort worth) in Texas is blue, votes democrat in every election, is majority liberal/left-leaning. It’s driving me insane okay. The majority of Texans live in or around the major cities. Land does not vote.
75% of Texans live in BLUE!!!
This makes me want to put a toaster in the bath tub okay bye!!!
You guys don’t get it, like if you’re not from Texas you don’t get it. Most people here seem to just wanna keep their guns and like not have to pay high taxes, but thats were their “"conservative ”“ views end. Texas is a minoriry-majority state. Dallas and Austin have some of the biggest LGBT populations in the US. To even call Texas a red state is CRAZY TO ME. ITS GERRYMANDERING!
Every one of those empty red squares gets representation in the state legislature. Those people representing 50 people and some cows are proposing laws. (I say this as someone living with cows in my neighborhood). And even then the districts are gerrymandered to break up any blue areas. My college town used to have a dem rep till they gerrymandered us to add more cow territory.
My state senate district weaves around 18 counties, including some partial counties, from central texas all the way to the border hundreds of miles away to make sure the absolute cunt of a state GOP senator we have stays in power.
If people outside these states want to do something to help us and stop the march of fascism you should be pressuring the federal government to address gerrymandering and voting rights. This cannot be a states rights thing. it’s a human rights issue.
Here’s the state senate districts @three–rings is talking about:
Lotta cow territory lumped in with bits of city there. It’s not just the state lege though. For fun, here’s what the US congressional districts look like:
Might be even worse. Shout out to TX-10 in particular that dodges around the city of Austin to pick up all the rich neighborhoods around Lake Travis on the west side to go with all those red Brazos Valley counties.
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Hey, I wonder how this district map looks if we color it by—
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[source: NY Times article about the latest round of redistricting gerrymandering]
My favorite gerrymandered Texas district is the one I used to live in, Houston’s 18th. Represented by the legendary Sheila Jackson-Lee.
But look at this map.
It’s the peachy thing. They literally just said "let’s carve out all the black neighborhoods and also the gay ones and put them all together. Now both the 29th and the 7th are also democratic these days, but that’s a recent development. (Okay the 29th has been dem controlled for a long time but the 7th only since 2019.)
Somebody reblogged this two year old post and I got all heated about this again.
Friendly reminder they are in power cause they cheat. They are not a majority. And they’re trying to fix every race. Don’t give up. We have the numbers.
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