that he picked greece. this is a helenification, or whatever the word, of the u.s. outlook. if enough people are dpen the dend on the state as employees or welfare buseneficiaries, sur people are behaving like greeks. when i read the title of your book, i know if it hasn t happened yet, it will that people will criticize it without having even read the book. sure. you expect it? standard operating procedure. it is. i m sure the moment it goes on sale there will be ten reviews on amazon saying this is outrageous before they could have possibly read it. the beauty of anglo sphere principles is they took root anywhere. what the indian writer calls the blood of the mind, not the body. anglos fear principles are why
what the major announcement is going to be today although other sources have confirmed she will be officially throwing her hat in the ring for the race of texas governor. just as you said, really before this summer, most people, americans, even texans for that matter did not even know who senator wendy davis was until that famous filibuster that nearly, 12-hour long filibuster in an attempt to stop the state s controversial abortion bill from becoming law. it later did in a second special session but some analysts are predicting that she will be able to mount a pretty nice campaign, though texas is still obviously a very red state. the political landscape here is gradually shifting. primarily because of the skyrocketing hispanic population. listen. anglos turn out at higher rates and vote 70% republican but hispanics though they turn out at lower rates vote 2 to 1 democrat. reporter: davis would be running against a pretty big name, texas attorney general
nonhispanic people who are republicans. they re voting their districts, aren t they, when they re voting against comprehensive reform? i m wondering how you re going to break that. you can say house of representatives. the way they re representing people is representing conservative people. that s my thinking. chris, this is you re absolutely right. the biggest problem is you have roughly 87 republicans that are tea party candidates that come from districts that are 79% white. the majority of the democratic representatives, they re normally roughly less than 70% white. they re more diverse. how do you fwlaek 87% district hold that basically says we don t want comprehensive immigration reform? the congressman is absolutely right. this is definitely a moral issue. when we start going down this plank and basically saying, look, we don t want to provide a pathway to citizenship, what we re saying is we want their labor, we re okay with indentured servitude but we don t want them to vot
deportations, of really this crippling of our families, this devastating effect of people dying on the border. our people want freedom. they want justice and they want fairness. they want an end of the exploitation of this permanent underclass. we have to allow them to join all of us in our great american democracy. let s talk politics for a second, hard politics. you know my politics. i m trying to figure this out. the congressman was very smart. he said you have 230 votes. that s 200 votes you re not getting. i m betting almost all of them are republicans. one way they re against it is the way the map has been put together. there s 232 congressional districts, much more than a majority that voted for mitt romney in the last election. the way the districts run because the republicans love t flood the minorities, flood the zone, get them all in one district and grab the whiter anglo districts, 80, 90%. they represent anglos,
mcallen, texas, in the 1930s was segregated. the neighborhoods, the schools. even in the hospital, mexican-americans and anglos were treated in separate wards. but when irene garza was born in 1934, her parents were determined that she and her sister josephine would transcend the discrimination together. we were very tight. we were very close because it was like us against all of those that were prejudiced against us. prejudiced against hispanics? hispanics, yes. and my dad fostered that because we re in it together. in their parents day, the public schools for mcallen s hispanic children only went to fifth grade, but the garzas had bigger dreams for their daughters. from the beginning we were told, oh, when you go to college, when you go to college. it was something that was just a thing that was going to happen.