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month, understanding he needed a vote a voter i.d. card to participate in last week s local elections, jim wright went down to the local department of public safety office and handed over his old driver s license that had expired in 2010, and he doesn t drive anymore, he is 90, after all, and he was told, sorry, those don t meet the requirements. he had to return the next week with his certified birth certificate and then and only then get the document necessary to vote. 25 years ago, jim wright was the most powerful member in the house of representatives. today, he can just barely vote in a local election. a story of how american politics has changed, how texas has changed, and what effect that change is having on a lot of people. here to discuss this, we have ali berman, contributing writer with the nation, former congresswoman mary bono with us, abby rapoport at the american prospect, also a resident texas expert, and back with us at the table is msnbc contributor jonathan capehar
district, one where you had extremely low turnout among hispanics, but a lot of them, so you could claim it as hispanic, you knew you wouldn t be representing that community s references. there is a lot of question as to whether there will be some similar e-mails when fact finding starts, that kind of thing, how much evidence is out there. they may have gotten smarter, about, like, e-mails are, in fact, evidence, you know, may not be something this will be a case to watch. there could be interesting things coming up in court. i want to thank abby rapoport with american prospect, washington post jonathan capehart, former up against the clock champion, i ll add that too. if you can t beat them, leave them. that s the road some deep red areas and blue states are now exploring and that is next. life with crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis is a daily game of what if s . what if my abdominal pain and cramps end our night before it even starts? what if i eat the wrong thing? what if?
0 rivals in an epic mayor for race that would play out a few years later, they joined together to introduce what was called the equality act of 1974. for first time ever there was now legislation in congress to ban employment discrimination against gays and lesbians. it went farther than that, extending protections to women and unmarried people as well. housing, public accommodations and public facilities like libraries. it went nowhere in congress that year, given the tide of social change, seemed like the sort of bill that would slowly but surely work its way to passage in the years ahead. in fact, it wasn t long before there was a companion bill in the senate. introduced by paul tsongas, a democrat for massachusetts. what no one saw coming then was the backlash. brand-new, well organized backlash from culturally conservative forces. it was the pace of social and cultural change in the 1970s that gave rise to the religious right. fundamentalists and evangelical dark day for the gay r
schaller. i teased texas before the break i was very respectful, but abby you wrote about this for the american prospect series we re talking about. i want to set this up by putting up a telling statistic about texas. these are the state s demographics according to 201 kr census. you look at that and you say, i totally get why democrats are always talking about turning text next blue. say, why haven t they done it already? this is the actual turnout pattern, 2010. we didn t have numbers for 2012 because they didn t do an exit poll in 2013. whites, 67%. latino, 17%. black, 13%. asian, 1%. abby, what s going on in texas? well, i think one of the things that s been a real problem in texas is you ve always had this fight over the white vote, right? which we were eluding e ing tin the rest of the south as well. and texas demographics are
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