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- Jun 4, 2019
Same thing is happening in Texas. We've been utterly SLAMMED by Californians, Cascadians and New Englanders over the past several years, along with the unstoppable tide of illegals and cartels openly roving across the border. I've ranted about this before - particularly the melancholy of seeing Texas' stunningly beautiful countryside and ranches devoured by strip malls, parking lots, freeway interchanges and subdivisions - but it just keeps escalating. All of our major reservoirs have been filled with one-time summer homes becoming permanent residences, and these people want to have a wet, forest-filled northeastern style condo on the Edwards Plateau. These people suck up groundwater like it's no tomorrow. Soon we'll just end up with rolling droughts and brushfires while they all make a surprised Pikachu face. What land isn't taken up by new housing tracts has been carved up for gas wells and fracking. There's no fucking way this is sustainable.
Just to provide some visual examples of the severity of this growth, we'll start out with the Edwards plateau - the boundary point of Texas hill country. Here we see I-35 passing through New Braunfels, a beautiful old German settlement and San Marcos, a historic Tejano town. The first image was taken in 2001, and the last in 2019. In 2001 you can already see the subdivisions and roadside malls growing along I-35 and on the fringes of Canyon lake. This reaches insane proportions by 2019 - Texas is becoming the colonization zone for boomers because Florida is full and Californians because Californians.
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As for the gas wells, one of the most egregious examples is Karnes county. It used to be a ranching area until frack-o-mania hit in the early 2010's. There was quite a bit of local pushback in many small towns across Texas - some of whom successfully voted against allowing fracking in their counties and town limits. How did the State Legislature respond? By bending over to the energy conglomos and passing a bill that strips local control over oil and gas extraction in their jurisdictions. This is what immediately followed (photos from 2010 and 2019, respectively). Each white splotch is a concrete pad for a gas well, and every single one is lit up like a dang Roman candle at night.
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Now onto the border regions. I don't need to explain much here. 1995 it was mostly orange groves and the occasional agro town. In 2020 it's colonias, colonias as far as the eye can see.
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In conclusion - cool, sweeping frontier Texas of old is dead af, and its corpse is getting scavenged by condescending bourgeois pinkos, while energy giants have the state GOP by the huévos so they can drill, drill, drill and never cut off that gushing tap of sweet, sweet illegal serf labor. The new arrivals hate local Texans and the GOP, the GOP hates its own constituents, the locals hate the new arrivals and vote GOP only to stop the dems, the energy conglomos hate everyone, the illegals hate Tejanos (and some desire a reconquista), the cartels are setting up shop, and white suburbanites still have no idea that a double-wide pickup truck is used to haul things, not a fucking pavement princess status symbol. Welcome to the new wild west, everybody.
At least we're all armed to the teeth.
Don't cry, my Texian compatriot. It's nothing a genocide couldn't fix.