Because those cities are blue and woke.
And yet, decades ago, Texan conservatives made no excuses for those cities. There seemed to be no bad cities in Texas back then. Unlike today.
Believe what you will...
I look at what’s going on in Texas, and what’s going on in KKKalif0rnia, and draw my own conclusions...
Austin has been the liberal beating heart of Texas for as long as I’ve been alive, and that’s about 55 years now.