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The Michael Berry Show

ARCHIVE - MB Talks To The Former Governor Of Texas, Mark White

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Berry Joe

0:02.0

Mark White served as the governor of Texas from 1983 to 1987

0:09.7

Growing up in a Democrat household, Mark White was a very different Democrat than the Democrat

0:17.6

Party today.

0:19.5

He had East Texas values.

0:22.1

He was far more conservative than Democrats of today. This was a period of time

0:27.7

when a number of Democrats in Texas were moving over to the Republican Party, people like Rick Perry, Phil Grant among

0:38.6

them and at the time the conservative Democrat was being left out, they

0:46.6

gravitated to the Republican Party, leaving the Democrats to be dominated by what call themselves progressive, but they're left-wing

0:57.8

nuts.

1:00.3

And it's sort of like what happens when you had white flight out of the urban core.

1:05.0

White flights no longer white flight. Now it's white flight, black flight, Hispanic flight, Asian flight.

1:11.0

It is it is blight flight. People don't want to live in these dangerous

1:18.0

big cities any longer. Well as the people who care, the law-abiding citizens, leave, they leave people who are

1:28.6

apartment dwellers that don't vote, and they leave these cities to be third world countries because the kind of people

1:35.6

that get elected in municipalities and that just makes it worse it exacerbates it.

1:40.0

Well that's what happened with the Texas Democrat Party.

1:45.0

When the Mark Whites left the party,

1:48.0

it was left to the Beto El Rorks, the nut jobs. So anyway, I always had a lot of respect for Mark White.

1:58.7

He was a former Secretary of State and then Governor, one of the last of the Democrat governors.

2:05.0

And he and I sat down for just over an hour.

2:09.0

I have a lot of respect for Mark White.

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