Yeah, that Texas Two-Step process that was so incompetently implemented by the Democrats (who proved that since they can't run their own party they surely aren't competent to run the state), has been deemed by Hispanic groups to be so fatally flawed as to illegally and unconstitutionally deny proper representation to Hispanic voters.

The Texas Democratic Party was sued Friday by Latino advocacy groups that say the primary and caucus system used in the state's March 4 presidential contest unfairly diluted Latino votes.

The League of United Latin American Citizens of Texas and the Mexican-American Bar Association of Houston sued in federal court, arguing that the party failed to seek clearance required by the U.S. Justice Department for the process, the so-called Texas Two Step. The groups also say the system effectively discriminates against Latino voters by giving them fewer delegates.

Texas Democrats distribute the state's 193 delegates using both a primary and a caucus, but the distribution favors state Senate districts that had high voter turnout in the most recent presidential and gubernatorial elections. That meant that on March 4, predominantly Hispanic districts, in which turnout was low in 2004 and 2006, got fewer delegates than others, particularly urban, predominantly black districts. Latino districts generally favored Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton; black districts favored her rival, Barack Obama.

"The manner used to allocate the delegates ... undervalues Latino Democratic voters and does not provide Latino voters with an equal opportunity to participate in the nominating process and to elect candidates of their choice," the lawsuit says.

My question is why anyone is surprised by this outcome. After all, Democrats in Texas undervalued Hispanic voters from the day Texas was admitted to the United States back in the 1840s right up until it found that the only way to hold on to power was to throw Hispanics a bone -- but only one that the meat had been gnawed off of first.

On the other hand, the GOP has always been open to Hispanic voters, and remains so right into the present day. And for all the efforts of liberal partisan hacks to portray opposition to illegal immigration as anti-Hispanic racism, anyone with a lick of sense knows better -- including a great many immigrants to this country who played by the rules to get here legally. After all, the GOP has never has a "Whites Only" sign at its primary polling places -- that was the Democrats for most of their history.

Maybe the time has come for Hispanic voters to say "hasta la vista, baby" to the Democrats.

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