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The impact is ongoing and thousands of people were rescued over the weekend as their homes filled with water.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">One University of Tampa sociology professor thinks Texans deserve the devastation and explained why on Sunday as the worst of the storm continued to bear down on Houston.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in instant Karma but this kind of feels like it for Texas. Hopefully this will help them realize GOP doesn&#8217;t care about them,&#8221; Professor Ken Storey tweeted and then deleted. &#8220;Those who voted for him [Trump] here deserve it as well.&#8221;</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">For the record Houston, the city taking the brunt of the storm with catastrophic flooding, is overwhelmingly Democratic.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">I&#8217;ll end this post with this:</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Texas, you didn&#39;t deserve this, but my goodness ya&#39;ll are making this country proud. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TexasStrong?src=hash">#TexasStrong</a> <a href="https://t.co/Cs8WEvQNkL">pic.twitter.com/Cs8WEvQNkL</a></p><p>&mdash; Ellison Barber (@ellisonbarber) <a href="https://twitter.com/ellisonbarber/status/901926619102806016">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote><p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">(First reported by Townhall)   https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/08/28/classy-tampa-university-professor-says-texas-deserved-a-hurricane-because-the-state-voted-for-trump-n2374262   (August 28, 2017)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Want more BFT? 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