Right, but this was a donor e-mail. Don't those always have sky-is-falling scenarios?
I blame Austin
Texas seems like it would skew towards the libertarian side of the Republican party rather than what Trump is offering.
How can this happen with how gerrymandered the districts are?
Austin is blue, I assume inner cities areas of Houston, Dallas and SA are blue, but everything else is deep red. How could they realistically go blue?
Austin is blue, I assume inner cities areas of Houston, Dallas and SA are blue, but everything else is deep red. How could they realistically go blue?
Voters in population centers going out to vote. Stalwart evangelicals being apathetic towards Trump. Any number of ways, really.Austin is blue, I assume inner cities areas of Houston, Dallas and SA are blue, but everything else is deep red. How could they realistically go blue?
Austin is blue, I assume inner cities areas of Houston, Dallas and SA are blue, but everything else is deep red. How could they realistically go blue?
Texas seems like it would skew towards the libertarian side of the Republican party rather than what Trump is offering.
lol missing a few big cities like Houston and Dallas (edit and San Antonio), we just had a 3 term lesbian mayor.I blame Austin
Houston and DFW inner cities (well Fort Worth more than Dallas probably) might be a lot more red than other cities if I had to guess. I know from experience that a lot of those young professionals living in the inner loop of Houston work in oil and gas and tend to skew Republican mostly because of taxes. The outer suburbs are largely Republican also.
However the entire Rio Grande Valley area is like 85%+ or more Hispanic and there's a little over a million people living there so I think that offsets it.
edit: jmdajr confirms my observations more or less! it's shocking to me that Galveston went Republican.
Houston and DFW inner cities (well Fort Worth more than Dallas probably) might be a lot more red than other cities if I had to guess. I know from experience that a lot of those young professionals living in the inner loop of Houston work in oil and gas and tend to skew Republican mostly because of taxes. The outer suburbs are largely Republican also.
However the entire Rio Grande Valley area is like 85%+ or more Hispanic and there's a little over a million people living there so I think that offsets it.
edit: jmdajr confirms my observations more or less! it's shocking to me that Galveston went Republican.
As someone who moved to Texas this year and registered to vote, I'm going to help make that a reality. It's going to be so good to go to work and hear people who lived here their whole life have the state flip because of people moving here 😂
It's only a matter of time Texas becomes a solid blue state. It's going to be a battleground state in the next 10 years essily.
You missed Houston and San Antonio. Maybe Dallas. Definitely El Paso and McAllen.
Houston and DFW inner cities (well Fort Worth more than Dallas probably) might be a lot more red than other cities if I had to guess. I know from experience that a lot of those young professionals living in the inner loop of Houston work in oil and gas and tend to skew Republican mostly because of taxes. The outer suburbs are largely Republican also.
However the entire Rio Grande Valley area is like 85%+ or more Hispanic and there's a little over a million people living there so I think that offsets it.
edit: jmdajr confirms my observations more or less! it's shocking to me that Galveston went Republican.
o7Hey fellow Texas Democrats/liberals/progressives, I know sometimes it feels like it's not worth it to go vote, given how tremendously we are outnumbered, both for federal and local elections. But this time, just pop out and drop a ballot. Let's see what happens.
We voted 40% for Obama, so it's not like there isn't a force of us out there.
where I live, (Denton county) has 2 big colleges (UNT and Texas Woman's University) but it went 65/35 in the 2012 election to romney ¯\_(ツ_/¯
Wendy davis had almost 40% in her governor race in 2014, could have gotten that piece of shit abbott out of here but our state sucks
where I live, (Denton county) has 2 big colleges (UNT and Texas Woman's University) but it went 65/35 in the 2012 election to romney ¯\_(ツ_/¯
Wendy davis had almost 40% in her governor race in 2014, could have gotten that piece of shit abbott out of here but our state sucks
Houston and DFW inner cities (well Fort Worth more than Dallas probably) might be a lot more red than other cities if I had to guess. I know from experience that a lot of those young professionals living in the inner loop of Houston work in oil and gas and tend to skew Republican mostly because of taxes. The outer suburbs are largely Republican also.
However the entire Rio Grande Valley area is like 85%+ or more Hispanic and there's a little over a million people living there so I think that offsets it.
edit: jmdajr confirms my observations more or less! it's shocking to me that Galveston went Republican.
IIRC, Dallas County is pretty solidly blue. The surrounding area isn't.
Also, Texas won't turn Blue this cycle, and maybe not even the next. But the demographics are shifting in a favorable way.
He keeps trying to go against the 14th amendment -.-It would bring tears of joy to see Texas go blue. At the very least the state should get rid of Abbot. He's a fool.
I live in the Denton county side of Frisco, lots of Trump signs in yards. Our area is basically all rich white families.
Hey fellow Texas Democrats/liberals/progressives, I know sometimes it feels like it's not worth it to go vote, given how tremendously we are outnumbered, both for federal and local elections. But this time, just pop out and drop a ballot. Let's see what happens.
We voted 40% for Obama, so it's not like there isn't a force of us out there.
Houston and DFW inner cities (well Fort Worth more than Dallas probably) might be a lot more red than other cities if I had to guess. I know from experience that a lot of those young professionals living in the inner loop of Houston work in oil and gas and tend to skew Republican mostly because of taxes. The outer suburbs are largely Republican also.
However the entire Rio Grande Valley area is like 85%+ or more Hispanic and there's a little over a million people living there so I think that offsets it.
edit: jmdajr confirms my observations more or less! it's shocking to me that Galveston went Republican.
Yeah, but it was an email sent to hundreds, if not thousands of people. This is beyond "loose lips sink ships."
Galveston is red. Houston is blue. Have had a blue mayor for years now.
o7
..that blue square up north is Dallas. I live in a blue congressional district. We have a dem mayor.
Yeah Virginia's transformation from ruby red to battleground to safe blue is a model for other states undergoing demographic shifts.Even without going blue, it would (will) be extremely gratifying to see Texas be a battleground state.
It's already quite nice that Virginia basically isn't one any more (and North Carolina is).