Texas is a study in contradictions – a red state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years, yet a state in which minorities form a majority and whose blue cities are some of the more diverse in the nation. God Save Texas puts viewers on the ground with true Texans, unspooling narratives of diversity and inequalities as well as beauty within communities, specifically examining the personal toll that the prison system, oil business, and border laws have on people living in these communities. Richard Linklater, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana Sosa visit Huntsville, Houston, and El Paso, respectively, using their personal relationships with these cities to paint contemporary portraits of a state that still echoes our nation’s past and warns of its possible future.
