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2/ Trump won historic margins in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and he did it by speaking to their economic/cultural concerns not pandering on immigration pic.twitter.com/CDK1hr283o
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) November 11, 2020
Welcome back, doc. Pat.net went a bit crazy while your were out on sabbatical.
Trump won historic margins in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and he did it by speaking to their economic/cultural concerns not pandering on immigration
I recall one of Patnetters was trying to scare us with "brown hordes" that will come and expel/kill us all?
The Great Replacement is long since underway in California, and it's not entirely bad.
The bad part is the driving down of wages for legitimate US citizens to boots our owners' profits.
Zapata county: Trump 52.5%, Biden 47.1%; 85% Hispanic
Val Verde county: Trump 54%, Biden 44%; 76% Hispanic
Starr county: Trump 48%, Biden 52%; >95% Hispanic.
Now compare this to places where FUCKING WHITE LIBERALS live:
Travis county (this is where Austin is): Biden 71%, Trump 26%; 68% white, 28% Hispanic.
Now please tell me the race of FUCKING IDIOTS in Texas???? I recall one of Patnetters was trying to scare us with "brown hordes" that will come and expel/kill us all? Would Patnetters rather live in Austin among the limousine idiots or among hard-working Hispanics of S. Texas? I think the lunacy of the Left (with their 10000 genders, males in female bathrooms, police cancellations, etc) has finally paid off. They are losing votes of common folk who work in farming, oil patches, petrochemical industry, and fishing. Without these jobs none of us would survive. And these workers are actually DIVERSE, which is different from fucking limousine liberals who work in HR or diversity offices doing jobs no one needs. As much as our resident Democrats might hate it, so-called workers and peasants voted R in this election.
And a chaser from TX Observer:
Danny Diaz wasn’t shocked when he heard about the Republican surge along the Texas-Mexico border that confounded so many national pundits last week. The majority Latino region has long been a Democratic stronghold, communities there have been ravaged by COVID-19, and polls indicate widespread disapproval of Donald Trump’s border wall. Yet local organizers like Diaz, the get-out-the-vote coordinator for Rio Grande Valley nonprofit La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), sensed days and weeks ahead of the election that the region would turn out for Trump.
Even as local turnout surged, border counties largely shifted right, shrinking Democrats’ margins of victory in the presidential race and in key Congressional and state races. Starr County, one of the poorest in the U.S. and with the highest share of Hispanic residents, had the biggest shift. Barack Obama won by 73 points in 2012. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won by 60. This year, Joe Biden led by just five points. Local Democratic Congressman Vicente Gonzalez, who handily won re-election last cycle, hung onto his seat by less than three points.
Meanwhile, conservative organizers say that local “Trump trains”—car rallies where Trump supporters would drive around town—energized the Republican base, and made voting for Trump less of a stigma in a region that’s repeatedly been the target of his rhetoric and policies. Rolando Rodriguez, the assistant regional director for Latinos for Trump, organized a series of Trump trains in Hidalgo County, some with as many as 4,000 cars. That inspired Ross Barrera, Starr County’s GOP chairman, to organize his own. “We’ve been dead,” Barrera says of his county’s chapter of the Republican Party. “I didn’t feel we had the base to do this, but we did the Trump train, and we got to meet a lot of people who were Republican and we never knew they were.” So each night during the three weeks of early voting, he gathered volunteers to phone bank for Republican candidates. “I said, you know what, we could do something here.”
In an informal poll Barrera conducted among 800 to 1,000 Starr County Trump voters, he says the most common reason people told him that they voted for Trump was job precarity, specifically in the oil and gas industry. Oil and gas extraction, along with petroleum and coal manufacturing, are two of the top ten industries in South Texas, according to the state comptroller, and the industry has tanked this year. And with law enforcement agencies and the Border Patrol as other major employers, Salas, Biden’s regional organizing director, says national calls to “defund the police” don’t always resonate. Protests against police brutality by white officers against Black people often fall flat in the vastly Latino region, where “the law enforcement looks the same as us,” she says.
Organizers point to these priorities to explain that the massive shift can’t be chalked up to Republican outreach efforts alone. The small, rural Zapata County, which Trump won by five points this year after losing it by 33 in 2016, doesn’t have an active chapter of the Republican party. No organizers reached by the Observer knew of a significant GOP get-out-the-vote campaign there.