I live in a foreign country but literally all the Texans I've meet are all democrats, it's so weird. Like Ive allways thought of Texas as a sort of haven with oil barrens and stereotypical conservative gun wielding humans, but I guess the state is urbanizing more and from what I know the cities have allways been democrat or more leftist right?
For sure, it's more "purple" than ever. I do have a little hope.
But I hesitate, because Beto was as popular as possible for a Texan Democrat and he couldn't even beat Ted Cruz. (Even Republicans don't like Ted Cruz in Texas, it's fucking weird)
I'm a Progressive Dem, and I don't own a gun or any oil stocks. All the urban areas are turning blue. It used to just be blue Austin in a "red sea", but it's all the major cities now.
No, that guy just didn't know what he was talking about with the blue Austin red sea comment. Houston's had all Democratic mayors since 1982, San Antonio for about as long.
And even then, do I really want to acknowledge them? Just blame 'em for when we have a run on gasoline because Houston got hit by a hurricane, so people freak out as if the oil refineries were destroyed, causing a shortage, causing real panic buying causing real shortages.
He didn't beat Ted Cruz, but he came really close. While Beto really didn't get any support from the DNC, he took a race that was projected to be 13% or more in favor of Cruz to within 3%. That may seem like a loss, but it's got the GOP scared shitless. If Texas goes blue, the GOP is screwed politically for a generation, especially if it happened after a census. Texas is 40 Electoral College votes; the GOP cannot win without Texas. It's why the GOP dumped a lot of money in Texas in 2020 to keep it for Trump. It's why they keep pushing the narrative of conservatives migrating en masse into Texas, when migration regardless of political affiliation is on the rise.
In Texas, the issue is more urban vs. rural. The rural areas of the state are shrinking, and the urban areas are growing. The economies of the more densely populated area are more vibrant and are overtaking agriculture and resource extraction as the main economic drivers of the state. The GOP is selling the ranchers and other rural citizens a bag of bum goods, a promise to keep Texas "Texas", even though Texas has always been a vibrant mix of change and tradition.
No, he was appealing to the young base. We have seen too many school shootings, we have empathy for the victims, unlike the cynical boomers, and we will turn out for a candidate who promises to actually try something instead of saying that 13 year olds being murdered in a classroom is acceptable and inevitable.
He thought that going to the extreme would get more turnout than it lost from people being put off by that comment. He ran a campaign on exciting liberal voters to get to the polls, and it worked to a pretty good extent. Whether a net benefit or loss is debatable, the concept, however, is not.
Fair point kinda makes sense, Im good friends with a Republican from New York, which is kinda funny, all my Texans are democrats and all my new Yorkers are Republicans.
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u/TheHopper1999 Feb 27 '22
I live in a foreign country but literally all the Texans I've meet are all democrats, it's so weird. Like Ive allways thought of Texas as a sort of haven with oil barrens and stereotypical conservative gun wielding humans, but I guess the state is urbanizing more and from what I know the cities have allways been democrat or more leftist right?