Blue Texas

By Baxter

Now we know the real reason all those teabaggers were against the U.S. census. They didn't want people to realize that the 2010 results would show the Republican Party hurtling toward extinction.

Why? Because America is becoming less white. And helping to lead the way is one of the biggest states in the union, Texas, which soon will join Hawaii, California and New Mexico as a majority-minority state. (Put D.C. on that list as well. It isn't a state, but should be.)

You know, we cats wonder. Already it's less than clear how any of the 12-plus dwarfs on the Republican side will defeat an incumbent President who was so decisively elected in 2008. But on top of that — and looking into the not-too-distant future — when a majority-minority Texas eventually turns from red to purple to blue, how will Republicans win any national election? With Texas added to New York, California and other large-population, reliably blue states, how can a GOP candidate carry only the Old Confederacy, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, and win the Presidency?

We're not saying it couldn't happen. After all, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia aren't locks any more. But the numbers are daunting. So, to our race-baiting Republican friends, we cats say: Keep attacking non-whites, white boys. We thank you for your support.

Oh, and you might want to rethink your opposition to the Endangered Species Act.