Geeko Sportivo
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At one time the Conservative Democrats had a Political Grip over Texas here, and pretty much dominated the political power. Democracy was lost in Texas when the Blue Dog Democrats split away from the Yellow Dog Democrats and started voting with the Republicans when Reagan ran for president.Democracy may be in trouble if you live in Texas. Probably is already. But most of the government that affects our daily lives is in the states, the towns and cities we live in. No realistic reason to believe why blue states won't continue pretty much as before. Americans are not about to give away their liberty.
So it only looks like Texas is totally dominated by Republicans, as many of these so-called Republicans are actually descendants of the old Blue-Dog Democrat bloodline. But with this morphing of the Blue Dog Democrats, and conversion to Republicans, it has given the Republicans a Domination of power in our state and has turned it into a RED STATE for more than 3 decades now.
This may confuse many people that are not native Texans.
Today, since TRUMP, the Republican Party of Texas has been hi-jacked and has gone FULL MAGATARD!
But, this has not been totally accepted, by the old NATIVE BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS, and they are starting to vote with the Democrats again! The state has been going purple again since Trump was such a horrible president. So there is always hope.
I found this little history of the split of the Blue Dogs from Yellow Dog Democrats.