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Looks like Abbott will win Tarrant County this year. Trump won it in 2016. Abbott won it in 2018. Cruz lost it in 2018. Trump lost it in 2020.
Thank God that Dallas, Austin, El Paso and San Antonio are not enough to turn the state blue.
Big rural margins, the Hispanic shift and Harris county margins staying close are saving us. Houston is much less bluer than the other big cities. If Houston was as blue as Dallas, things would get bad.
What happened to Dallas? I know elderly people who grew up in DFW and they say Dallas used to be very conservative. Is it all Californians? And should we worry about Tarrant county in the future?
What changed Dallas is two things, Rick Perry and Abbott imported too many tech companies from Silicon Valley into Texas and also because young Texans these days are much more likely to be Democrats.
These two factors drastically changed the demographics of Dallas.
FYI George W. Bush in 2004 was the last Republican Presidential nominee to win Dallas county.
Good news is that COVID spurred the migration of new Republican voters from blue states into many parts of Texas.
I myself fled CA for Texas last year.
I think Tarrant will be a true swing county for the near future. I don't think we should doom about Tarrant but it's future is kinda uncertain at the moment.
I think whether it goes blue or red in a given year will depend on the candidates and the political environment. This year's environment despite the Roe overturn should still be on net beneficial to Republicans since Biden is very unpopular.
Tarrant could go blue for 2026 if we have a Republican president back in office and he has low approvals then.
Yea all the businesses are a double edge sword. More jobs in Texas but it does import a lot of lefties. On the other hand I’ve met a lot of Californians like yourself who moved here because they wanted to be in a red state
Abbott is not perfect but he is a million times better than Beto. Beto disgusts me on a visceral level.
I lived in California for most of my life but the COVID tyranny from 2020 onwards was the last straw for me.
California as a state is very beautiful in terms of natural scenery and the perfect weather.
Breaks my heart that I was essentially forced to leave the state I called home for decades because of unbearable leftist governance.
We must not let this horror happen to red states like Texas.
The fact that many people like me left CA and came to Texas gives me hope that we will keep Texas red for years to come.