Texas is success and Illinois is failure | Da Techguy's (no longer backup) Blog

Texas is success and Illinois is failure | Da Techguy's (no longer backup) Blog

John Ruberry (Marathon Pundit) made a recent visit to Texas which inspired a comparison unfavorable to his home state of Illinois. "The Land of Lincoln had slightly more than 10 million residents [when I was born], while the Lone Star State had about half-a-million fewer people. According to the 2020 Census, Texas was the home of 29 million people, with Illinois at just under 13 million. Overall, in the same time period the overall US population soared from 179 million to 329 million.... The Prairie State has been losing population every year since 2014.... Since I was born four Illinois governors, three Democrats and one Republican, have served time in federal prison. No Texas governors have suffered that indignity. Last month, Michael Madigan, who was Illinois' most powerful politician until he was ousted as Illinois speaker of the House in 2021, was indicted on a whole slew of racketeering charges. Madigan, except for two years in the 1990s, served as House speaker beginning in 1981. From 1998 until 2021 Madigan was also chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party."

Ruberry quotes from the farewell letter from former Illinois State Senator Roger Keats, who is Gone To Texas.