Texas Democrat enters race to unseat Ted Cruz
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Roland Gutierrez gained attention for his push for gun restrictions following the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
  • BigFig@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Its not though. We used to be a Democrat bastion pre southern strategy. People need to get back to voting in their own interest and not party lines. I suppose step one is even voting to begin with…

    • Zorque@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      We used to be a Democrat bastion pre southern strategy

      So when the Democrats were the racists?

        • prole@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          1 year ago

          To be fair, they’re not entirely wrong. Democrats back then were mostly racist Dixiecrats who switched to the Republican party because the national Democratic party decided to push for the Civil Rights Act

        • Zorque@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Why do you assume I thought it was only black and white? Obviously they were all racist to some degree, that’s just how it was at the time. It’s just the Southern Democrats were more racist than others… cause that’s who had power in the south back then. Much like their Southern Republican compatriots have quite a bit of power now.

          Just because my comment was pithy doesn’t mean it didn’t have truth in it.

      • BigFig@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        It is going to be a tough battle and we will have to fight every attempt to stop it. The republicans have built state government in a way to try and make it as difficult as possible for a democrat to take over. But it is never impossible. We also tend to be pessimistic on this topic