I remember traveling for the first time up north, to the rest of the states.
About 200 miles north of the valley is an immigration check point( @ the #15 on the map),
where everyone is suppose to declare themselves legal citizens,
and dependin on accent further questions.
I didn't think nothing of it, until we reached wyoming and no other check points were encountered.
There were also no immigration check point going back home to the valley.
That was when i was a kid on a family vacation.
The most recent was the 2003 redistricting in texas where
republicans saw a wave of new hispanic voters and dicided to gerrymander
the state with the districts radiating like a pin-wheel from the Austin.
Dicing up all the districts into rural and urban strips running 300 miles long.
My district ends in south San Antonio suburbs or something like that.
Senate committee approves redistricting - Front Page
One district starts in Travis County and winds its way south to Hidalgo County along the border.
Another district, currently represented by Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, starts in Travis County and heads east into Harris County.
I went to the scheduled town meeting to meet the representatives voting to pass or regect the map, and the look on their faces was 'can't wait to get outta here'.
The meeting started with a group of people storming the auditorium with signs and chanting disrupting it for some time, then others had their moment on the mic.
The stacks of petitions signed meant nothing.
And that was just our town.