[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

I hope you're right (especially since I intend to move to TX by the end of 2021). But I grew up in California - it was a conservative state in the '70s and '80s. Things change when hordes of liberals move in.

[DesertRhino]

California had horsesense people too back in the day. So did Arizona, so did Oregon, So did Arizona, so did Colorado.

[CatOwner]

But I grew up in California - it was a conservative state in the '70s and '80s. Things change when hordes of liberals illegals and overseas Chinese move in.

The latter pretty much destroyed Silicon Valley's moderate-to-conservative lean from the 1980s.

[Night Hides Not]

But I grew up in California - it was a conservative state in the '70s and '80s.

Like hell it was. I lived in Castro Valley growing up, a suburb about 15 miles south of Berkeley. The HS was politically correct before the term was invented.

My last two months in HS were terrible, all because I was awarded an Army ROTC scholarship. You can't imagine the vitriol I had to put up with. I had teachers say to my face how "disappointed" they were with my decision. The only teacher who publicly supported me was my calculus teacher, a former Jesuit priest who taught at Marquette. He was thrilled when I told him I was matriculating at Gonzaga.

Of my graduating class of over 550, I had the most valuable scholarship: an academic scholarship that paid all costs, except for housing. My monthly stipend and summer job covered my room and board.

They hated the military in Castro Valley, and I've laughed about it since I left, never to return. I enjoyed experiences that none of my classmates could imagine.