Heather Wilhelm at it again..... Of course, she's always right.
Democrats resurrect the dream that never dies: turning the Lone Star State blue.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/beto-orourke-democrat-dream-turn-texas-blue-never-die/
My problem, however, is this: Why is it that, time and time again, Democrats and media players look at the wild success of Texas — a state that is growing and thriving and drawing people who are fleeing Illinois, New York, and other blue states — study it a for bit, scratch their chins like a herd of drunk professors, and then say, “Ah, yes. Texas needs to be more like Illinois or New York!”? I myself fled a blue state five years ago, and I can tell you that I didn’t move to Texas so that it could be more like Illinois. (Illinois, much to its chagrin, recently joined New York and New Jersey to make up the top three in the latest United Van Lines survey of America’s most-fled states.)
Scoff if you will, but Texas, as state residents are famous for reminding anyone who will listen, is a glorious place. I’m always a bit shocked to hear someone new to the state — and there is always someone new, often from San Francisco or Silicon Valley or Brooklyn or what have you — confessing their shock and alarm that they’ve actually moved to . . . gasp . . . Texas. They moved to Texas, of course, because it is more affordable and has low taxes and is home to three of the top-ten fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States; plus, it doesn’t propose bills to put waiters in jail if they serve unwanted bendy straws. (That place, in case you’re wondering, is California.)
Democrats resurrect the dream that never dies: turning the Lone Star State blue.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/beto-orourke-democrat-dream-turn-texas-blue-never-die/
My problem, however, is this: Why is it that, time and time again, Democrats and media players look at the wild success of Texas — a state that is growing and thriving and drawing people who are fleeing Illinois, New York, and other blue states — study it a for bit, scratch their chins like a herd of drunk professors, and then say, “Ah, yes. Texas needs to be more like Illinois or New York!”? I myself fled a blue state five years ago, and I can tell you that I didn’t move to Texas so that it could be more like Illinois. (Illinois, much to its chagrin, recently joined New York and New Jersey to make up the top three in the latest United Van Lines survey of America’s most-fled states.)
Scoff if you will, but Texas, as state residents are famous for reminding anyone who will listen, is a glorious place. I’m always a bit shocked to hear someone new to the state — and there is always someone new, often from San Francisco or Silicon Valley or Brooklyn or what have you — confessing their shock and alarm that they’ve actually moved to . . . gasp . . . Texas. They moved to Texas, of course, because it is more affordable and has low taxes and is home to three of the top-ten fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States; plus, it doesn’t propose bills to put waiters in jail if they serve unwanted bendy straws. (That place, in case you’re wondering, is California.)
