The GOP will eventually have to change their minds. Maintaining beaches is getting to be more and more expensive, and the owners of such properties tend to be Republicans. If the wealthiest Republicans have to blow half their fortunes on maintaining beach fronts, they'll certainly make themselves heard in the most effective way possible.
Their cheque books.
Meanwhile, I'll simply sit up here in San Antonio and await the day that a good portion of Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Port Aransas, and maybe a bit of Houston all get swallowed by the Gulf. It will be that much more of Texas that will start voting Democrat once it happens.
(I'm not terribly worried about Padre Island. It's a sandbar island so it'll simply wind up migrating relative to the new coast line.)
Their cheque books.
Meanwhile, I'll simply sit up here in San Antonio and await the day that a good portion of Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Port Aransas, and maybe a bit of Houston all get swallowed by the Gulf. It will be that much more of Texas that will start voting Democrat once it happens.
(I'm not terribly worried about Padre Island. It's a sandbar island so it'll simply wind up migrating relative to the new coast line.)