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• Thursday, April 23, 2009 01:09 PM

  Reaching out to Texans who love America

  My first inclination, as a native Arkansan raised to despise and resent Texas, as an Illinoisan proud to have supported Obama, as a progressive Democrat with dreams for an America with universal health-care, world class education from birth through adulthood, and finally as a proud American who would like to see his nation be the civilized place it can be, my first reaction is to say, "Let them go." With those electoral votes and that vile congressional delegation gone, the increasingly regional Republican party would have to move to the center or die. But, then I recall the tradition of Texas and southern progressivism. Lyndon Johnson and a host of Southern Democrats raised on the New Deal broke the back of southern massive resistance by finding common ground among the poor and the oppressed. We can do that now. As a child of the South, I know that progressive-minded whites and African-Americans have worked with unparalleled courage to fight the power of local, petite aristocrats and faceless national corporations and can do it again. Letting Texas go would be easy and would improve the odds of electing good and decent people to national office. And working with progressive Texans to make a better America would be hard, but infinitely more humane and better. There are millions of progressive and working class African-Americans, Latinos, and whites in Texas and throughout the South. Let's build a new coalition that isolates Perry and the treasonous snakes in the Texas Republican Party by meeting the needs of all Americans. God bless America and defend us from secessionist traitors!

  —Tyrannity Watcher Read Tyrannity Watcher's other letters
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