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            plus shutting down voting locations in predominantly non-white citizen areas in texas, especially in houston and the areas south of san antonio.

            plus shutting down key locations in certain areas of the city throughout every major blue city to make it really inconvenient to vote.

            plus understaffing specific locations in certain areas of the city to make it inconvenient to vote

            plus a fair number of automatically “accidentally”changing votes on evoting machines in favor of the republicans that, if the person didn’t refuse to confirm and go back and correct choices they made, oops you voted all republican.

            plus ken paxton withholding mail in votes because “it would have turned the state blue if the mail in ballots from austin area weren’t blocked.”

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              voter suppression tactics are disregarded by most and especially in texas; point this out only brands you a malcontent.

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        I looked this up because I thought Catholics traditionally leaned heavily democratic. According to wikipedia, that was the case into the 60s. The past few decades they’ve split fairly evenly between democrats and republicans, so I don’t think that alone i’s too much of a driving factor.

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      A lot are catholic, which means prolife. It doesn’t matter anything else politically due to abortion being a sin.

      Source: in-laws are Hispanic 1st gen illegal (now legal)border crossers who vote republican. I love them, but they can’t see past the one ticket item.

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        I’ll never forget the news article about one woman who was married to an illegal immigrant, voted for Trump, and was shocked when her husband was deported.

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      Because Latinos don’t vote in huge numbers. There is also this misconception that just because someone not white that they would automatically vote Democrat. Latinos (especially older ones) tend to be VERY traditional and VERY religious. Democrats typically do terrible with those groups. Even with all the shit that Republicans do, some 40% of Latinos swing red (on a national level and I am sure TX is similar).

      The only people surprised by this are ones who get all their news from sites like this one or Reddit who have been repeated told the lie that the GOP is solely made up of old white men.

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      Lots of immigrants from catholic countries that lean conservative. One of the biggest qanon nuts I knew was Hispanic.

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      Census actually does count any undocumented immigrants. I believe the requirement is that they live in a typical home.

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        It was supposed to. But I doubt the last one was very concerned about it, considering what trump was doing.

        They were also very not concerned about accurate accounting of minorities, etc, either

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          Which actually hurt red states. See, the number of representatives is based on total population, both citizen and non-citizen. So when it came time to reapportion congress, the undercounted data was used, because it was the official data.

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              And census takers counted as many people as possible in those blue states.

              Red states said fuck it, don’t count any non-citizens.

              And red states suffered from their racist policy in the re-apportionment.

              It’s a classic story that’s repeated over and over again. Racists put in place a racist policy to appease their racist supporters, and that racist policy hurts them.

              Look at Florida, where republican racists put in place a policy to punish anyone who works with undocumented migrant workers, and now, no one is picking Florida produce because the migrants went elsewhere.

              Whereas, blue states are open and accepting (for the most part) and offer help obtaining paperwork and even help navigating the citizenship process.

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                The census was a federal campaign. The states had nothing to do with it, it was administrated by the Feds.

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                  States had nothing to do with it except supply local workers and resources for said workers, and then republicans made noises about using it to track down and deport undocumented migrants, especially in places like Texas and Florida.

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                    the “States” didn’t “supply” jack shit. The program wasn’t run by the states. the census takers and everyone else weren’t state employees. they were federal employees.

                    yeah. sure, they were hired locally. That means jack shit. this is like saying that New York manages the FBI because the current director happens to be from there. People were hired and are employed by the Census Bureau. the resorces for taking the census was funded and supplied by the Census Bureau. the policies of census taking -and indeed, using it to out undocumented immigrants- were established and managed by the Census Bureau.

                    and lets not forget the threat to undocumented immigrants was meant to bypass sanctuary states not cooperating with ICE. it may have lead to undercounting in red states, but there is way more documented cases of under counting in blue states, simply because of the failure to adequately allocate resources in blue states. which is why those blue states are going through the courts to have the census overturned.

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        Usually, but they tried hard not to count them during the last census. We really should redo the census now that Covid is less of an issue and try to get an accurate count.