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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] What Futurama Guy said, Mucus. The Chihuahuan Desert overlaps a bit into southwestern Texas, plus Big Bend National Park takes up a good chunk of area in the S-curve along the Rio Grande. It's a pretty arid area, but things supposedly get greener and more fertile as you get closer to the mouth of the Rio Grande (I wouldn't know, the closest to the mouth I've been is Laredo). And, on edit, it just occurred to me that Mucus might be speaking about the lake of blue in an otherwise red state. The southern parts of Texas near the Rio Grande are heavily hispanic. With the exception of two congressional districts, the border area is represented by hispanic Democrats (Ortiz, Hinojosa, Cuellar, and Reyes). The two exceptions are Doggett (a white Democrat) and Bonilla (a hispanic Republican). Interesting sidenote about Doggett: his district used to be the capital city of Austin. Doggett was one of the Democrats that DeLay's redistricting plan targetted, so Doggett's district was redrawn as spanning from the border all the way up a quarter of Austin. The hopes were that a hispanic Democrat would challenge and defeat Doggett in the primaries. A similar scheme worked by redrawing the district of Chris Bell (a white Democrat) to include a much larger black population. A black Democratic challenger defeated Bell in primaries. Fun stuff, Texas politics. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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