[napscoordinator]

I bet Texas will turn blue in the next decade. With all these companies moving to Texas from the north, they will be bringing their employers with them (most of them anyway). That is why you are seeing a slow shift in the mid-west to red states and the south will be turning blue. However, we cannot allow Texas to turn blue without California or New York turning red.

[ansel12]

The kind of people that are brought to Texas as their firm moves there to escape liberalism, taxes, and over regulation, are probably already pretty well hip to the real world consequences of politics, I would think that they would be a net gain for conservatism in Texas, and a counter to immigration.

[dblshot]

I bet Texas will turn blue in the next decade.
Well like most big cities here they are already blue. You got Austin full of California techies who visit the music scene in Austin like they they are visiting the zoo, San Antonio which is predominately Mexican and votes dem although I like San Antonio and the people there are good folks, Dallas which is just queer, wouldn't know a cowboy if he wasn't wearing a football jersey (like the song says "I ain't from Dallas, I'm from Texas) and here in Houston we got a lesbian mayor and a hard corps leftest city council. But what can you do, the people that live inside these moated castles, think 610, have little care about those peasants that till the soil in the hinterlands, until we vote in statewide elections that is.

[Grams A]

I bet Texas will turn blue in the next decade.”

Of the four largest cities in the U.S., Houston is the only one with an openly Gay mayor and like all the others is very much a sanctuary city. I’ve been here since 1985 and what I have seen is a shift right on money issues but a strong shift left on some social/moral issues.

I would suspect there is going to be a battle royal next year when they gather in Austin over how much money to pump into the public school system. Lots of parents are complaining about the vast array of school supplies they must now pay for out of their pocket.

State of Texas employees are not going to have their insurance coverage through Blue Cross of Texas any more as of September 1 and are moving to United Healthcare so this is a big change. UHC operates their systems primarily out of California so this will have a marked effect on both Blue Cross and the employees.

Should prove to be an interesting Legislative session.