How Henry Cuellar's political career survived its toughest challenge yet

[LeftInTX]

We don't know the outcome of this race...

It is more than likely going to runoff. It depends on who shows up to the runoff. If Bexar County shows up, Jessica Cisneros wins. If the Laredo area shows up, Cuellar wins.

Sharing the article because it points to the peculiarities of Democrats and voters in the Rio Grande Valley. The Rio Grande Valley is not a progressive area. It's Democratic, but it's conservative Democratic. It always has been. Republicans are aware of this and using this a basis to convert voters to Republican.

It also is not a pro-immigration area.

https://sanantonioreport.org/opinion-henry-cuellar-political-career-toughest-challenge-yet/

As someone who grew up in Laredo, I know its peculiarities. Ever since I can remember, Laredo votes Democrat but not liberal, supports social programs but maintains a social conservatism. Its body politic leans heavily into a Catholic ethos. In short, Laredo contains multitudes.

Cuellar is one of the last of a dying breed in the U.S. Congress but who occupy an outsize role in current affairs: So-called Blue Dog Democrats are an anachronism in today’s political climate, a relic of the party’s past. They occupy the space just to the right of center, much like Lyndon B. Johnson before the Great Society and Civil Rights Act.

[Budi]

1. K & R for Henry Cuellar

💙

[walkingman]

2. I hope Cisneros wins - the relationship between Tejano and Mexican is

strange in my opinion. The religious element of the Hispanic community is a big factor especially since the GOP has claimed ownership of religious dogma. I so wish that the Abortion issue was not a political issue - but it certainly is.

[LeftInTX]

3. I think the Mexican-Americans population in the Rio Grande Valley has a higher "Tejano" population

than the rest of Texas.

By Tejano, I mean people who were here before Texas was a state. (They go way back)

Most of the Mexican-Americans in San Antonio have roots in the late 19th and early 20th Century.


Although the majority of Mexican-Americans in Texas came during the Mexican Revolution and around that time, I think most of those immigrants headed north and bypassed the Rio Grande Valley because there just were not enough jobs down there to support such a large population.

So, the Rio Grande Valley are "The original Texans"...Everyone else is not.