11954

In fact, forget the university.

11955

Is there a gofundme for this?

11956

What happens to Austin if Texas secedes? Will there be a little corridor?

11957

Houston space center and Marshall space center, in Huntsville, AL. Bright red or maybe you were joking?

11958

I assume Jeff is saying if they seceded (again).

11959

MTG: The Nation of Islam is the greatest!

I don’t think that’s gonna play with her base, but fuck it nothing makes sense so maybe it will.

11960

I don’t know what he was basing that statement on, but the overall makeup of the state or city doesn’t really mean much. It’s what, 65% Republican or something like that, in 2020? 1/3 of the people there voted Democrat and they’re not evenly distributed among the population. I wouldn’t be surprised if NASA employees doesn’t fit the typical Alabama demographic.

11961

Not to mention that Huntsville was not exactly chosen because there was an established brain trust there to begin with.

11962

I hope/think they’d be less likely to Republicans than the states as whole. Still, I think it is big stretch to assume that that many maybe even most wouldn’t work for a new Confederate State, especially in Alabama which is as you point out heavily Republican. A friend of mine runs a several large apartment complexes, in Huntsville including one upscale place that caters to Space Center employees. He describes the area as very southern.

11963

I meant if they seceded. Also scientists skew very, very heavily Democrat since Republicans are so anti-science.

11964

Why are we spending time talking about Ted Cruz’s fan fiction reading anyway?

Let’s be clear: the is zero mechanism, including a popular vote of its citizens, for a state to leave the US. It can’t happen. It won’t happen.

But let’s also play along for a second. What the nincompoops who fantasize about their “red” state leaving the US don’t realize is that the country looks a lot different now than it did before the Civil War. It’s not about Texas vs. California, it’s about cities vs. rural areas, and there are a lot of big, blue cities in Texas. Joe Biden got 5.2 million votes in Texas in 2020 to Donald Trump’s 5.8 million.

It’s all just nonsense that shouldn’t be given the time of day.

11965

Because he’s an elected member of the Senate saying insane shit?

If what a sitting Senator says and does isn’t qualification for talking about then I’m pretty sure literally nothing is.

11966

I imagine that’s true at JPL in Pasadena. Huntsville went 53/45 for Trump and the Space Center is the largest employer. 72% of all NASA employees are White, 66% are men, 56% are over 50. This skew’s heavily Trump. 60% are scientist/engineers, scientist are heavily Democratic, engineers far less so.

I mostly agree with Menzo, this is silly discussion that ain’t ever happening. But the on-going forum narrative that assumes NASA employees are smart (probably true) and therefore Democrat is dubious. I honestly don’t know what’s more important to NASA employees their identifications as southerns or scientist/engineers

11967

re: Hunstville:

Huntsville zip code 35896 – an area around Oakwood College – as the most liberal place in the state. There’s a 92 percent probability someone living there is a Democrat. There is also a strong chance they are pro-choice, pro-environmental regulations, pro-gun control and pro-taxation as opposed to benefit cuts.

Science/Scientists FTW!

11968
11969

Elaine Chao has a lot of chutzpah to talk about anything others should be doing when she and her hubby in the Senate were demonstrating almost comical levels of corruption during the Trump administration, directing government contracts to companies in which they had a major financial stake.

11970

I think the real stretch is Cruz thinking the folks at Ft Hood, and Ft Bliss, plus the air bases would just decide to join Texas.

11971

Yup, still morally corrupt (and loathsome):

11972

I think they would get a large segment of the enlisted men, but I’m pretty sure most of the officers would leave town pretty quickly.

11973

I’m certainly not defending Gosar, but what does that image have to do with AOC?