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AUSTIN — All across America on Monday morning, walls crumbled and gamblers rejoiced. For decades, the federal government had maintained an unconstitutional barrier between its citizens and their God-given right to blow a week’s paycheck on a four-team parlay, and now that age of obstruction is over.

Thanks to a landmark Supreme Court ruling, legal sports betting in New Jersey and Delaware is only days away from becoming a reality. States from California to Connecticut could follow soon. A sea change across every major sports league and all of college athletics is upon us, and it is spreading fast. But will it spread to Texas? Don’t bet on it. Washington, D.C., can’t stop us from placing wagers on the Spurs or the Cowboys anymore, but Austin sure as heck can. And as long as the most powerful men in this state remain the most powerful men in this state, there is no reason to believe Monday’s Supreme Court ruling — which struck down a federal ban and left sports gambling regulations up to the states — will have much of an impact south of the Red River.

“(Lt. Gov.) Dan Patrick controls the agenda of the Texas Senate, and no legislation he opposes is going to pass,” said Mark Jones, a political science fellow at Rice University. “His opposition to this is steadfast.”

Before we get into the nittygritty details of that opposition, and whether it could be softened, here are some facts to throw some cold water on those Texans who celebrated Monday’s court ruling:

Unlike states such as Mississippi (which has passed legislation removing a state ban) or Oklahoma (which has considered bills related to sports gambling), no such headway has been made in Texas. Even if the Republicans in the Legislature miraculously changed their minds about gambling, or even if the Democrats miraculously win control this November, the earliest we could see any legal sports gambling in Texas would be spring of 2019.

But that’s not going to happen, because our politicians have made it quite clear they are not interested in playing ball, however lucrative it might be. In Texas, we provide the rest of the country with petroleum products, songs about pickups and gamblers, and we’ve so far been content to keep those shipments going.

“The state has decided to export its gambling dollars to Lake Charles, to Shreveport, to Oklahoma, and to Las Vegas,” said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican strategist and former press secretary of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. “The question is, how long is Texas going to be satisfied sending those dollars elsewhere?”

When sports books open just across the border, that will give Texans even more of an incentive to make the drive.

Mackowiak thinks that eventually could lead to a “tipping point” in which state politicians realize it no longer makes sense to ban sports gambling. But Jones, the Rice professor, is not so sure.

“If it were a matter of dollars, we would have had casino gambling a long time ago,” Jones said.

To Republican conservatives like Patrick, Jones said, the objection to gambling is “a matter of principle, not of dollars.” The official platform of the state’s Republican party includes a line stating opposition to legalized gambling.

And there is a worry among conservatives, Jones said, that allowing sports gambling could be “the camel’s nose” that leads to an influx of casinos.

“If Dan Patrick and Republicans yield on one thing, they know it’s going to be harder to stop the rest of it,” Jones said.

Monday’s ruling will at least give Texas politicians something to think about.

“It was really easy to be against sports gambling when there was a federal ban,” Mackowiak said. “It’s different now.”