Texas cops refused to send escort to Biden bus

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65. sigh...

What. Are you shocked? Did you think they were friends? That Kennedy's choice was anything other than strategic? You're also questioning Irish_Dems and the others who agree with him/her, right? or is it just me? I lived during those times, and Kennedy's choice was only one reason, and a sufficient reason, in their minds, for Texas to hate Dems. Nothing personal, just regional politics that go all the way back to a previous century.

Easy for Chris Rock to joke back in the day about there never being a black vice president, but many Texans don't joke.

Hate is a strong word, often carelessly used. But the feelings of fear and loathing of Kennedy were sharp in Dallas from the time Kennedy was elected. People there were glad "the bastard was dead."

William Manchester began an early version of “The Death of a President,” his widely read 1967 book on Kennedy’s assassination, by describing the 1960 Kennedy-Johnson hunt. (Manchester moved the section to a place later in the volume after being advised that starting his narrative with it seemed to imply that a “boorish” L.B.J. was part of a violent Texas subculture that was a breeding ground for the president’s murder almost exactly three years later.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/upshot/kennedy-lbj-and-a-disputed-deer-hunt.html

Nov. 22 marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy‘s assassination in Dallas, a tragedy that still haunts the city. In their new book,”Dallas 1963″ journalism professor Bill Minutaglio and writer Steven L. Davis document the hatred, hysteria and fear that culminated in Kennedy’s death.

“Dallas had just simply become, in an almost initially unlikely way, the headquarters of the anti-Kennedy, ‘Let’s overthrow Kennedy’ movement,” Minutaglio said in an interview with NPR. “He was perceived to be a traitor. He was a socialist, he was on bended knee to so many different entities communism, socialism and even the pope.”

https://news.utexas.edu/2013/11/18/why-jfk-died-in-dallas/


We should not forget that not just race issues drove North/South culture differences; they drove sharply felt politics in Texas, where Easterners were seen as commie-marxist elites and "effete snobs" and "limousine liberals." The white supremacist culture built on a deflective berating of liberals has a long history in the South and West. So yes, Dems were distrusted, and after JFK's assassination, don't think they didn't double down.

Generally speaking, “turn blue” doesn’t just refer to the presidential race, though that’s admittedly what’s on most peoples' minds. Really, the question boils down to when will a Democrat win a statewide election in Texas. Those races can range from the president or U.S. Senate to statewide offices like Ag Commissioner and Comptroller.

The last time a Democratic candidate won any statewide election in Texas was 1994. That year, a Democrat won each of the following statewide seats: Lieutenant Governor, Comptroller, State Treasurer, Land Commissioner and Place 1 on the Texas Supreme Court.
To find the last time a Democratic presidential nominee took Texas, you have to go back to 1976, when Jimmy Carter was elected President, beating Republican candidate Gerald Ford.

https://www.ksat.com/vote-2020/2020/11/06/has-texas-ever-turned-blue/

And Carter was a one off because he was Southern. Texas along with the rest of the South, can return to its dixiecrat roots, which do still weigh heavy on its purple momentum.

I don't want to pigeon hole that state, but it's taken a lot of work for Democrats to survive in Texas politics, driven by a race/immigration public face and a fossil fuel back room force.

Here's a longer look at Johnson. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/02/the-transition