In 5 to 10 years at most you will be able to add Dallas to the list.
The surrounding cities are all Republican controlled and doing fine. The City of Dallas is now controlled by Democrats who are taxing and spending all of the businesses out to the surrounding cities.
Dallas is rapidly turning into a toilet. The Texas GOP is infested with open-border RINO’s like Florida’s GOP.
Just an unintended result of the desegregation of DISD schools in the ‘70’s. Parents fled Dallas rather than have their children attend inner-city schools, only after being bussed halfway across the city. The DemocRATS are reaping what they have been sowing for the last 40 years.
What was good about Dallas has moved to Fort Worth. It’s a minor relocation of 20 miles, compared to shipping business overseas.
The surrounding cities are all Republican controlled and doing fine.
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But that will not continue, unless those LOCAL suburban areas get a handle on burgeoning local bureaucracies with, for example, an out of control inspector-mentality, top-heavy grossly overpaid school district administrations, fat(snicker)firefighter pensions, and hideously over-equipped police departments.