People are moving to Texas because of its anti-gay stance? Sounds fine to me. Please, let's concentrate them in one place, minimize their national political power, and then sadly nod our heads when they decide to secede again.
Sounds like a feature, not a bug.
Texas Activist: People Moving To Texas Because It Banned Gay Marriage
Yesterday on “Washington Watch,” Jonathan Saenz of the Religious Right group Texas Values criticized state lawmakers for failing to vote on a proposal that would have invalidated several L
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Reading this thinking WTF while driving through Dallas. I must admit every time I travel to Texas I think of how pleasant the people are and the state is. It's like the purple here are cool and for some reason elect dipshits. Odd.
Edit: in fairness this one is an activist. Just give him time…
There are two Texases. One is urban and generally quite progressive (Houston has a lesbian mayor, for instance). The other is rural and gerrymandered to hell and back to deliver maximum seats to the idiots.
Unfortunately, barring a massive overturn of the system, it's not going to change.
My company has a major (in fact, its biggest, though not HQ) office in Houston, so I've been there many times.
Great food.
And very friendly, hospitable people … with whom I edge back from any discussions that involve politics or religion.
Nice place to visit, but I couldn't live there.
don't judge all Texans by a few idiots. Idiots are not exclusive to Texas. Every Country, state and city has plenty.
I'll just leave this here https://youtu.be/Zhl9MLno424
+Aaron Kasten Sadly, no, every country, state, and city has them. However, if a goodly portion choose to move to Texas, maybe that's a net win for everyone except for the non-idiots still there.
+Dave Hill so you actually believe that Texas is one of the fastest growing states in the country because of this guys fucked up reasoning? Not because of the incredible cost of living to income ratio, the cheap land, the no state income tax, the low unemployment rate and the overall quality of life?
There is a reason Texas was #2 on Forbes best states to live in and it has nothing to do with gay marriages. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathryndill/2014/06/09/the-best-and-worst-states-to-make-a-living-in-2014/
No, I don't think that Texas is growing because of the idiots living there.
Directly, that is. I think the economy is booming because the idiots have stripped taxes and regulation down to the bone (ignoring the non-business costs of same).
I think land is cheap because there's tons of it to sprawl on (supported by draining aquifers) and because of past real estate boom-bust cycles around oil prices.
I don't think either of those is a sustainable model.
+Aaron Kasten Good video, by the way, and a thumbs up to the people in that diner. It demonstrates that sometimes how ordinary people are doesn't reflect the rhetoric of the folk who represent them or who speak loudest in the media for their communities.
@Aaron – Personally, I’d stay away for the sky-high uninsured rate, teen pregnancy rate, and the lack of regulation which makes things as non-safe for non-businesses as possible…but that’s just me.