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To: JohnM who wrote (1349)	5/22/2003 4:43:46 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793928

Of course, but his title is not "chief columnist"; it's "chief correspondent". Yep. In spite of the moony money, the WT does not have the assets of the WP or the NYT. People double up.

To: JohnM who wrote (1349)	5/23/2003 5:29:59 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793928

From Texas, Coming Soon to a Statehouse Near You By LAWRENCE WRIGHT - NEW YORK TIMES OP ED (Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker) Here is the key paragraph. As Texas goes, so goes the Union. Funny. I was dancing to "God Bless Texas" at Willies tonight. >>The Democratic Party was built on unions, minorities and the South. It was a Texas Democrat, Lyndon Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, knowing as he did so that he was sawing off one of the legs of his party's stool. We've lost the South for a generation, he is said to have lamented in what turned out to be an optimistic projection. The blue-collar vote went to Richard Nixon and since then the Democrats have never been able to call labor home. White Democrats are now so dispersed in the conservative suburbs that they are becoming a marginal force in national politics. The genius of Karl Rove and the Texas pols who now run the country was to recognize that the Democratic Party in Texas had mainly become a party of minorities and was doomed, therefore, to be a minority party. They crushed it.<<< nytimes.com