
Adam Serwer: What Texas Can Teach Us
Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle
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Texas Is a Conservative State, and You're Playing Into Conservative Hands, Right?
When you make these assumptions about texas, you are actually playing into conservative hands. The state legislature is like drawing on an extremely effective racial jerrymander of the state in which they are deliberately diminishing the power black and latino voters in texas to make sure that republicans can be elected. It is fundamentally an attempt in insulating republican politicians from any back lash they might incur from in governing in a way that most people in texas don't actually want them to govern. And then there's the sort of cycle effect of that, which is that liberals look at the way texas is governng and look at republicans getting elected over and over again, and just assumn
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