• IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    The vast majority of us don’t want to secede and think this is crazy.

    Maybe they don’t want to secede exactly, but I’m not so sure they think this is crazy. Although the demographics in Texas have shifted some in recent years, Abbott was still elected with more than a 10% margin, and polls seem to indicate that a majority of Texans support him on this issue. I don’t doubt that most of the people you know agree with you but Texas is a big state with a very large rural population, and most of them very much believe Texas has the right to defend its own border with Mexico.

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      9 months ago

      Do you live here too?

      And yeah, we think we have a right to defend the border, but that isn’t the same as saying that our way of doing it supersedes the national government, or that it is something to secede from the union over.

      And who are they polling? Because the last several elections have proven that polls are often wrong in this country, and especially this state.

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        9 months ago

        Everyone allowed to vote is who they “polled”… We’re talking about the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election…

        You can’t say that the majority of people in Texas don’t like the leadership but there’s nothing you can do about it when Abbott got nearly 20% more votes…