Because it showed that even though texas is a southern state, it had compassion for the africanamericans struggle of slavery. The cspan cities tour visits literary and Historic Sites across the nation. To hear from local historians, authors and civic leaders, every other weekend on cspan 2s book t. V. And cspan 3s American History t. V. This month, with congress on its summer recess, the city tours is on cspan each day at 6 p. M. Eastern. Hey. Look at me. Hurry come on come on wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it. Welcome to galveston on book t. V. Located on an island off the gulf coast of texas, it was the main port for the texas navy during the Texas Revolution and served as the provisional capital of the republic of texas. Today its visited by over six million tourists. With the help of our cable partners, well learn about the history of this coastal city from local authors. We begin with casey greene on the 1900 storm that decimated galveston. [music] the 1900 storm struck galves
The issue is. People are not required to vote a particular because there are only two parties. Its just much its much more engaging as a result i think if we dislike that in the trendy we would have higher levels of participation. Thats another thing that we dont admit that we really should, that is we have at the most about 60 , 65 of the population voting. We go to other countries and they have 80 . You go to australia and you are required to vote. If you dont vote you are punished. In the United States somehow we want to make it difficult for some people to vote or its not necessary, its not necessarily we want to make difficult. Its that we are coachable and having made it difficult for people who dont have access to a car truck or ben, people who dont have a lot of money in order to take time off from work to engage in a political activity or to even vote. And some of we blame the people as opposed to our electoral system and say, well the fact that, thinking of a case that i liti