Comment by rawgabbit
8 hours ago
Texas is red (rural and suburban) with big dots of blue (urban).
If worse comes to worst, Texans will be fighting ourselves first.
8 hours ago
Texas is red (rural and suburban) with big dots of blue (urban).
If worse comes to worst, Texans will be fighting ourselves first.
That describes essentially every state in the Union. Illinois is red with big dots of blue.
Blue states are states where the big dots of blue are big enough to outweigh the rural red. The only major difference between Indiana and Illinois is Chicago.
Texas was Democratic 35 years ago. They also gain 100k Californians each year so becoming more and more purple.
> Texas was Democratic 35 years ago.
As I believe were many southern states at that time, but certainly not because they were at all "liberal", either by the standards of then or now.
Both parties have changed so much since then that it's a weak comparison at best.
I attended the Arkansas Governor's School in '92. The last with Clinton's influence. They had remarkably liberal programs to expose kids to the broader world. After that year the J-freaks took over and eliminated all of that programming to suit their flavor of bigotry but that doesn't erase the people that were and still are there.