Texas GOP ignores young voters with LGBT snub

by Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune


Texas Republican leaders have decided once again not to allow the party’s biggest LGBT group — the Log Cabin Republicans — to operate a booth at the state convention.

It’s not the first time that’s happened, and it’s in line with the party platform on LGBT issues. But it also pits the party’s social conservatives against its live-and-let-live conservatives and its older voters against its younger ones.

The reality is, Republicans are old.

Some Democrats are old, too. But on average, the older the Texan, the more likely they’re conservative. Also, male. And white.

That’s a fact, not a judgment. Not every Republican fits that description — not by a long shot.

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