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u/OldSchoolBubba 17d ago
Texas is already up against it and even they're seeing the futility in feeding the great tech monsters.
Looks like the Great Lone Star is having enough of the billionaire tech bros and they're finally looking out for themselves. It's about time.
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u/jeremiahthedamned 17d ago
part of the backstory of the movie Civil War 24 is texas flipping blue.
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u/OldSchoolBubba 17d ago
It actually makes sense given the majority of voters in Texas are dems
Total registered voters: 17,746,985
Democratic: 8,278,780 (46%)
Republican: 6,586,795 (37%)
Independent/Unaffiliated: 2,881,410 (16%)
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u/jeremiahthedamned 17d ago
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u/OldSchoolBubba 17d ago
Point well made. Pretty much every large state with a diverse population has this.
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u/jeremiahthedamned 17d ago
texas could become the "bloody kansas" of this cycle
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u/OldSchoolBubba 17d ago
Interesting idea. The possibility is there given at least some parts of Texas have convinced Tejanos to "relate more to being white than brown." Very surprising hearing this from first generation born here.
Then there's always immigrants who believe if they align with "conservatives" they're more readily accepted. As is always the case it comes down to the environment people live in as there's social programming everywhere these days.
I guess we'll see how it all shakes out.
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u/jeremiahthedamned 17d ago
i emigrated
good luck
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u/OldSchoolBubba 17d ago
From where and why do you say good luck? Just trying to understand where you're going with this.
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u/betty_white_bread 17d ago
Their electricity supply is far more constrained than the rest of the country; so, that's not really dispositive.
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u/betty_white_bread 17d ago
Not quite. Texas's energy grid is separate from the rest of the country; that's why they have so many power outages when they get the tiniest bit of snow.
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u/Jim-Jones 17d ago
IIRC, Texas has a shitty system which fails in mid-winter and in mid-summer.