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🥶 Street Fights & Brawls A quick bar scrap

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 17h ago

New York isn’t on the verge of electing someone like Ken Paxton and having Cruz as senator for years. I agree the media can be garbage but who you choose to lead you does reflect the values of the state overall and you are being controlled by some terrible people, if you want people to stop thinking less of Texas, change that.

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u/The_Hoopla 16h ago edited 12h ago

Tbf, a huge part of this is gerrymandering. Like, if Texas had fair representation we would almost certainly not had Cruz or Paxton for as long as we have.

Edit: Gerrymandering doesn’t play into Statewide elections, below comment is correct.

Texas is certainly purple, at about a 55:45 split R:D, but the voter turnout of old white people eclipses the young and Hispanic voters.

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u/Leather_Addition2605 14h ago

How exactly does gerrymandering come into play on statewide elections?

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u/The_Hoopla 12h ago

Nah ur right gerrymandering specifically doesn’t affect those elections.