[Mark Felton]

Lubbock is considered a very conservative town in Texas. Its main attraction is Texas Tech University, considered more conservative now than Baylor, SMU, Texas A&M and Texas Christian University. My son, who plans to go to seminary after his undergrad degree, starts there this fall along with 4 friends from our church.

[SF Republican]

Best of luck; Tech and Lubbock were a fantastic place, west Texans are great people.

[Xenalyte]

Your poor son . . . the only thing that keeps Lubbock from being the armpit of Texas is El Paso.

Seriously, Tech is a great school, but you cannot get more in the middle of nowhere than Lubbock.

[Jedidah]

I love Lubbock and all it stands for, and I'll join in the prayers for rain, but . . .

ain't no way Tech is more conservative than A&M.

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[af_vet_rr]

Its main attraction is Texas Tech University, considered more conservative now than Baylor, SMU, Texas A&M and Texas Christian University.

Conservative enough to cuss out my daughters, my mother, and anybody else within range at a UT/TTU football game. In Austin. People who were just sitting there, watching the game. Getting cussed out by Tech fans because Tech was getting blown out.

Tech is just like most of the other colleges in Texas - they have their party animals, they have their party areas of town, and even with it being a dry county, they have their runs to the strip(s) to get their liquor and party down.

Don't get me wrong, Tech has plenty of nice people there, just as every college in Texas has. One of them felt bad enough to apologize to my mother and my daughters even though they had nothing to do with it, and another went and got the cops (who got there before my brother, dad, and I got back, which was a good thing for their physical well-being - I don't think they'd want to explain to their parents why they had to check in to Brackenridge).