"You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas"

vanity | Dec 12, 2020 | Slyfox

[Slyfox]

Davy Crockett's famous quote has a lot of relevance today.

I moved into Texas in 1975 from Michigan. When we moved here there were many people who were conservative who were also democrats. Over the next few years I witnessed an overturn while people moved into Texas.

The larger cities is where Republicans lived while democrats lived outside the cities. The democrats were like I said conservative.

Then in 1980 a real change took place. The democrats realized that they were more in line with the politics of Ronald Reagan and they all began voting that way. So, people in the country realized they were Republican.

As people moved in from various states, the larger cities became more liberal and people in the suburbs and in the country solidified as more Republican.

I remember going to the state house in Austin 1978 and the people I observed were the stereotype of wheeling-dealers smoking cigars and big hats, mostly democrat of the old style, sorta like LBJ but still tended to be conservative.

I went back after the Reagan Revolution in 1985, and gone were the stereotypes and in their place were Republicans in dominance.

Whatever happens with even more people moving in from all over the country, there may be an effect like what happened to me. I realized I was a conservative Republican with slight libertarian leanings.

Texas is economically one of the freest states. That is an attractive thing.

Anyone moving here is going to bump into certain type of people we seem to grow on trees here - people with horse sense who can smell a phony a mile away. I personally know of liberals who left Texas because they had run into too many people who could see right through them and they didn't like that.

One more thing, I have a friend who works for a house builder. She was born and raised in Fort Worth and suffers no fools gladly. When people come into her office to discuss buying a house she semi-casually asks them about their political preference. She said 80% answer conservative and with that she is enthusiastic about selling them a house. She said the other 20% say they are liberal and she works hard to discourage them buying a house.

Even if lots of people move to Texas does not mean Texas will ever become blue, because they all will meet up with the ones with the good, old Texas horse sense.

[joma89]

The reason for that is mass immigration from poor, non-European countries.

JoMa

[Fred Hayek]

I left New Jersey in 1988 for Texas and never looked back. For me the phony posturing of the limousine liberals and wannabe sycophants in the New York City drove me out. This was during the Yuppie craze in the Northeast.
Ten years in Minnesota between 2001 and 2011 convinced me that there can be no coexistence with the Left. So I returned to Texas. Who did I run into on my return? Sheila Jackson Lee. In person, at the Kroger. What a nasty evil scold. I told her to go back to Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC.
Of course later on I moved out of Houston, and have little reason to go there outside of work.

[ptsal]

Texas by choice...

The rest of them can go to hell....

yep, sounds like a deal.

[joma89]

I think it may be time. Remember the Alamo.

JoMa

[fella]

This was the year Texas was supposed to turn Blue but only the precincts with Dominion voting machines did.

[A Navy Vet]

Thank you, but I can’t find I-35. What medium size city is near it?

[crusty old prospector]

It basically runs down the entire state. Dallas / Fort Worth to Waco to Austin to San Antonio to Laredo. East of it is mostly humid, especially in the summer. Most of the state’s population is east of I-35. If you are looking for “less humid”, I would just look up the Texas Hill Country. Far west Texas is mostly desert with few towns, unless that is what you are looking for. Most of the oil fields are out west.