For Suffering Texans ...

[ancianita]

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We Dems are with you, and when you're ready for positive change, Stacey Abrams will be there.

[lark]

1. Sending to my family in Austin.

I'll be checking in on them latae today. Hope they have a fireplace in their new home.

[ancianita]

2. Okay! Hoping they have the electric and broadband running so they can play it.

[lark]

3. Cousin was on FB Monday so hopefully true.

I will find out soon.

[Archae]

4. Hank Jr. is a right-wing asshole.

[ancianita]

5. Yes he is! But this sounds like one of those come-to-Jesus songs.

[CTyankee]

6. I'm a third generation Texan who left the state in 1960 to go to college in the north and never

came back (to live). Now I feel there are many good people in TX, such as Beto and many others who I have admired, such as the late, great Molly Ivins.

I'm so sorry about the woes Texas has now. I know my mother, a good Democrat, used to say "...this country won WW2 and put a man on the moon and we can't do (fill in the blank)!" She would be filled with disgust and horror at the sight of her fellow Texans, literally out in the cold and hungry.

So many good people in Texas. So much pain and sorrow...

[ancianita]

7. Thank you for this.

I wish I could say the same for Florida, which I left in 1972. I thought I'd never go back, but did for the weather, not the good people, because after living there for 20 years, I hadn't met enough to think FL had a lot, though it has a lot of polite people. Once, into my 5th year living in Tallahassee, I asked a local about Southern politeness, huggy-kissy socializing. He told me that gun culture keeps people polite. That explained a lot to me about what passes for 'no cussin' lectures on manners, or what passes for 'open minded' discussion or 'respect' for 1A rights down there.

Texans might just be seeing Texas Democrats in a whole new way soon.

[CTyankee]

8. Since my family had a gun death in Texas, I am not the person to talk to about Texas and guns.

It's another story and not one I ever like to think about.

Your story about gun culture is very interesting! I never thought of it that way, but it's a pretty grim picture, sheesh...