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I bet the people of Texas are glad they did not leave the union now. (Original Post) slater71 Aug 2017 OP
Remember Barbara Bush's condescending remarks about Hurricane Katrina evacuees? Glorfindel Aug 2017 #1
I doubt that many Houstonians, Austinites, Dallasites and Fort Worthians would want to secede. TexasProgresive Aug 2017 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #3
That right there is a truly fucked up post. Nt B2G Aug 2017 #4
No DBoon Aug 2017 #5

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
1. Remember Barbara Bush's condescending remarks about Hurricane Katrina evacuees?
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 07:27 PM
Aug 2017

"WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 - As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."


"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."

Mrs. Bush toured the Astrodome complex with her husband, former President George Bush, as part of an administration campaign throughout the Gulf Coast region to counter criticism of the response to the storm. Former President Bush and former President Bill Clinton are helping raise money for the rebuilding effort.

The New York Times 09/06/05

TexasProgresive

(12,148 posts)
2. I doubt that many Houstonians, Austinites, Dallasites and Fort Worthians would want to secede.
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 07:27 PM
Aug 2017

Probably not a lot of the rural dwellers as well.

Response to slater71 (Original post)

DBoon

(22,288 posts)
5. No
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 07:42 PM
Aug 2017

The ones who want to leave the union probably believe in weather modification conspiracy theories

Meaning the the hurricane was engineered by buried government operatives to make trump look bad.

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