“Don’t California my Texas” has been a popular phrase amongst Texans for some time now. The Lone Star State has seen Californians flee New York for many years. We love that our state offers a welcoming environment that attracts people and businesses, but we worry that they will forget what brought them here.
Texas is free of state taxes and has a low cost of living. The cost of a three-bedroom home located in suburbs near Dallas is much lower than the price of a Los Angeles-area two-bedroom. It’s how it is. The last thing that we want to see happen is for someone from another state to vote in policies that would have destroyed their old homes.
Texas’ crimson hue has not changed despite constant immigration from the blue coast states. It would appear that many people did learn their lesson and aren’t falling for what they used to buy from Democrats. The former Democrats are now voting Republican.
This is bad news for the left…but it gets worse.
Even Democrat elected officials may be switching to Republicans and joining the Republican party. As indicated by The Texan, Rep. Ryan Guillen of Rio Grande City announced that he’s had it with the Democrats and is exchanging the “D” for an “R”:
“Something is happening in South Texas. Many of us are waking up to the fact that the values in Washington D.C. are not our values in South Texas,” Guillen said at the announcement. “I’m proud to continue voting the way I have and not doing so against my party.”
Guillen was flanked by some of the state’s top Republican officials such as Governor Greg Abbott, Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont), and Texas GOP Chairman Matt Rinaldi.
Guillen has a track record of being pretty moderate, to begin with, and some of the more salty Democrats would say he was a Republican already, but the fact is he wasn’t.
Democrats should be alarmed by this trend, which should also indicate a continuing pattern of the left gaining more power. Virginia has changed dramatically from being a Democrat Party State to becoming a Republican Party state. A lot of this was due to Guillen’s remarks. The left has fallen prey to radicalism and disconnected itself from the people.
It was also mentioned in the Texas GOP chairman Matt Renaldi.
“Following this month’s Republican victories in Virginia and in Texas HD 118, this is yet another example of how the increasing extremism of the Democratic Party has alienated Texans who care about smaller government, strong families, safe communities, and the protection of the unborn. Those people have a home in our party,” he said at Guillen’s announcement.
Texas is now even more out of reach for the Democrats. This is especially true considering that Texas’s two traditional Democrat strongholds, McAllen County Starr County and Zapata County went Republican in recent years.
It’s clear that the Democrats have nothing going on in Texas. Even its challenger for Governorship of the state, Beto O’Rourke, proves that Democrats are desperate to find any kind of foothold they can.
(READ: Stop Trying to Make Beto O’Rourke Happen)
For now, it would appear that despite the left’s hopes that Texas would begin tinging purple, it will remain solidly Republican. While time will tell if this is true or not, all these strongholds leaning to the right shouldn’t give the left any cause to hope.
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