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Originally Posted by BevoLJ
Wow, guess I hit a nerve saying Austin is liberal.  |
No, you didn't hit a nerve. But you were wrong when you said "It used to be that the Texas cities (except Austin) were very Conservative". That just isn't true. For example, Houston has never elected a Republican mayor. Has Austin?
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Lets look at the past elections.
2008: Every major Texas city voted for Obama (Austin, Dallas, Houston, EP, and SA)
2004: Kerry got Austin and El Paso, Bush got Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio
2000: Every city voted Bush
1992 and 1996: Clinton got Austin, El Paso, and San Antonio while Houston and Dallas voted for Dole
1988: Dukakis got Austin and EP, rest voted Bush Sr.
1984: Reagan carried the state.
1980: Only Austin voted for Carter while Dallas, Houston, EP and SA voted Regan.
1976: Entire state voted for Carter
1972: Entire state voted for Nixon
1968: Humphrey got Austin, SA and EP while Houston and Dallas voted Nixon.
1964: LBJ so obviously all Texans voted for him.
1960: Kennedy got Austin, SA and EP while Houston and Dallas voted for Nixon.
It goes on and on like that. Some might even call it a trend.... Lets take the final number. Times a city voted D and time they voted R.
Austin: D-10 R-3
Dallas: D-4 R-9
El Paso: D-9 R-4
Houston: D-4 R-9
San Antonio: D-6 R-7
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And keep in mind the county size differences. The City of Austin holds a higher percentage of its county population than Houston does for Harris County and Dallas does for Dallas County. Because it doesn't look like you are actually listing the cities here, just the counties.
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And with what you call "show off liberalism" what do you expect from a city with over 100k students and the 3 main factors that make up that city are education, politics and music. Just because we are more vocal doesn't make us less liberal. Look at the election results they speak for themselves.
I suggested to another poster asking how the cities might have changed with the influx of people and in that post I said I believe Austin hasn't while Houston, and Dallas have become more liberal. I also said that was my guess about the other cities and invited you guys from those cities to state if that was right or not. However rather than state what change your cities might have experienced you go and say my assessment of my own city is inaccurate? Really?
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All I did was say you were wrong. You should probably only speak for Austin if you didn't know then. I'm not sure I bashed Austin in any way. I'm telling the truth. I'm not up on what Dallas has been doing lately, even though I live in DFW, but I know Houston is something like the fourth largest purchaser of clean energy. They want to put over 100 electric car charging stations around the city. Plus, all of the people from more left leaning areas like California moving here and minorities. Counties like Fort Bend are becoming more blue (Harris already is). Those are some of the changes, since you wanted to know.