And then, last year…:<\/p>\n
In 2017, just months after voting so overwhelmingly for Trump, they elected a black mayor for the first time in the town\u2019s 136 year history. And did so by a wide margin.<\/p>\n
Those same white people who voted for President Trump helped propel Anthony Williams to victory in a town with a black population hovering at 10 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Abilene Mayor Anthony Williams (R).<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cPeople were so eager to vote, there was actually a higher turnout at the runoff than the general election,\u201d the\u00a0Texas Standard<\/em>\u00a0reported. \u201cIt\u2019s been at least two decades since that has happened in Taylor County.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust like other Texans, I\u2019m proud to be a Texan,\u201d Williams told local reporters and residents in town after the big win. \u201cAs an African-American, I\u2019m proud of my heritage, but I really want to focus more broadly on our community.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
One of the left’s favorite slanders of the right over the past decade or so is “the only reason you didn’t vote for Obama was because he’s black” (and its companion slur, not voting for Hillary Clinton because she’s female-ish).<\/p>\n
Which is baked wind, of course; I wouldn’t have voted for a Scandinavian Male Presbyterian who espoused either of their policies.\u00a0 And I’d vote for a black Muslim lesbian, if she were a Hayek\/Friedman disciple who owned a couple of AR15s and agreed that we should too.<\/p>\n
Everything the coastal media tells you about the rest of the country is pretty much BS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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