"That includes metro Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, Charleston, Columbia, and Memphis among others (granted metro Nashville and maybe Birmingham are trending GOP, and Jackson, Louisville and San Antonio stay about even, and well, Austin is a college town)." Baldwin county, eastern shore of Mobile Bay, voted every Democrat out of office. There is not one publically elected Democrat in the county government...and, we elect our judges too.
Baldwin County is a GOP bastion relative to its state, in a state that is a relative GOP bastion to its region, in a region that is a relatively GOP bastion to its nation, at present, so you live in a GOP cubed zone (wall to wall relatively high income WASP exurban Southerners). Can you really stand it not having the opportunity to rub shoulders with worldy secular humanist types? It must be awful. I myself would turn to substance abuse if consigned to that fate. :) Cheers and have a merry one.
Baldwin County, Alabama
Kerry 22.5% 15,599
Bush 76.4% 52,971
Other 1.1% 750