Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140125:15:45:00
Minority turnout. that means georgia, louisiana, mississippi and texas are in. but it's not discrimination, it's a formula. now i know you want to focus on texas' huge leaps in the last 50 years, but let's put those leaps in context because texas has quite a history. back in 1848 even though a treaty ended the mexican-american war and granted citizenship to mexicans living in your state and others, texas used english language proficiency, property rights and violence to keep them from voting. during the civil war in the 1860s because union troops never made significant advance into texas, your...