Flawed model...New York City on 21 on the L list? Austin, TX on the conservative list? What a joke.
Oops, that's Arlington, TX...okay, that fits. I lived there for two years.
Not as much of a joke as you may think.
There has been a huge inflow of yuppies move in in the last decade, thanks to the tech industries that have moved in there. They don't know or care about Hippie Hollow or Armadillo World Headquarters (there's a bank building there now). The progs have been griping about it for years, how much the city has changed.
Austin, like any college town, will always be a bastion of liberals, but it's not near so bad as it was in the 60s and 70s.
Speaking as someone who until last year lived in a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NYC that had a Republican state Senator and the most conservative congressman in the state (Vito Fosella), I can tell you that NY is not nearly as bad as Seattle, where I currently live. The main difference between Detroit (#1) and Seattle, politically at least, is that while 19% of Seattlites have the sense to vote Republican, only about 7% of Detroiters do.