[usefulcat]

> Texas was Democratic 35 years ago.

As I believe were many southern states at that time, but certainly not because they were at all "liberal", either by the standards of then or now.

Both parties have changed so much since then that it's a weak comparison at best.

[kevin_thibedeau]

I attended the Arkansas Governor's School in '92. The last with Clinton's influence. They had remarkably liberal programs to expose kids to the broader world. After that year the J-freaks took over and eliminated all of that programming to suit their flavor of bigotry but that doesn't erase the people that were and still are there.