http://gwendolynzepeda.com/2008/11/837/ website of an author Tue, 19 May 2015 00:20:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://gwendolynzepeda.com/2008/11/837/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:05:11 +0000 http://gwendolynzepeda.com/new/2008/11/837/#comment-157 I am a little late to the party, but thank you for saying what I could never really articulate. I live in the progressive epicenter of TX, supposedly, and I had such a horrible set of interactions with white Republican racists after Katrina and during the election that I am taking my Texan husband back to a blue state near the one in which I was raised. I tried to make it work, I tried to appreciate the foliage despite the scary, red-faced bigots hiding behind it, but after the election, I said to myself that I can never raise kids here, never establish a life here, even though we bought a house and will suffer relative hardship in our move to a more expensive state. There are many lovely, thoughtful, open-minded people in Texas (incl. the husband I met here), but the bullies are overwhelming at times, and destroy everything that is beautiful with their hateful ugliness.

]]> http://gwendolynzepeda.com/2008/11/837/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:05:11 +0000 http://gwendolynzepeda.com/new/2008/11/837/#comment-234 I am a little late to the party, but thank you for saying what I could never really articulate. I live in the progressive epicenter of TX, supposedly, and I had such a horrible set of interactions with white Republican racists after Katrina and during the election that I am taking my Texan husband back to a blue state near the one in which I was raised. I tried to make it work, I tried to appreciate the foliage despite the scary, red-faced bigots hiding behind it, but after the election, I said to myself that I can never raise kids here, never establish a life here, even though we bought a house and will suffer relative hardship in our move to a more expensive state. There are many lovely, thoughtful, open-minded people in Texas (incl. the husband I met here), but the bullies are overwhelming at times, and destroy everything that is beautiful with their hateful ugliness.

]]> http://gwendolynzepeda.com/2008/11/837/comment-page-1/#comment-311 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:05:11 +0000 http://gwendolynzepeda.com/new/2008/11/837/#comment-311 I am a little late to the party, but thank you for saying what I could never really articulate. I live in the progressive epicenter of TX, supposedly, and I had such a horrible set of interactions with white Republican racists after Katrina and during the election that I am taking my Texan husband back to a blue state near the one in which I was raised. I tried to make it work, I tried to appreciate the foliage despite the scary, red-faced bigots hiding behind it, but after the election, I said to myself that I can never raise kids here, never establish a life here, even though we bought a house and will suffer relative hardship in our move to a more expensive state. There are many lovely, thoughtful, open-minded people in Texas (incl. the husband I met here), but the bullies are overwhelming at times, and destroy everything that is beautiful with their hateful ugliness.

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