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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Our ranch is near two of those towns. The only reason they still are on the map is because of the influx of Hispanics from Mexico (including our ranch manager and his family) about 30 years ago that came in and injected youth, money and labor and entrepreneurial growth in them. David, our ranch manager, has a side construction and hay making business. Manuel in one of those towns is building a THIRD restaurant that'll open in January. There are a lot more of those types of businesses. When I first started looking at the local paper when I was ten or so, the sports photos prominently displayed on the front page of the Giddings Times every week were full of white kids. Now they're white and brown.

These towns would be dead if it weren't for the influx of brown people with last names like mine.

My husband is there right now, and he went into town today to see how the pulse of small town Texas was. The hardware store was unremarkable. The grocery store was full of blacks and hispanics that had no real reaction at all. At Walmart, he overheard conversations about church.

Fayette County (where the ranch is)
Donald J. Trump / Mike PenceREP 8,648 78.16%
Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine DEM 2,127 19.22%
Gary Johnson / William Weld LIB 209 1.88%
Jill Stein / Ajamu Baraka GRN 45

Lee County (closet town)
Donald J. Trump / Mike PenceREP 4,996 76.49%
Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine DEM 1,372 21.00%
Gary Johnson / William Weld LIB 126 1.92%
Jill Stein / Ajamu Baraka GRN 28 0.42%

You got to move out to the ranch and run for Congress in two years. You may not win, but get 'em all registered and get some political stuff going.