“may???”
You may benefit from some history:
Perry’s dad was a Democrat county commisioner for 28 years. Haskell county was still voting Democrat within the last 10 years.
Most counties in Texas didn’t even have Republican primaries until the ‘80’s. Moma was election judge in Henderson County in ‘80, when there were 10 registered Republican voters in the precinct, and 3 of them lived in her house.
The local Baptist preacher reportedly lost his pulpit when his church found out that he’d voted in the Republican primary.
Haskell County:
I live there.
My family has been here since 1889. Rick Perry’s ancestors came here in 1887.
There are no Republican office holders in the county. Only Democrats at the local level. None of the office holders are Libs. They never have been.
There is some history that is hard to explain to outsiders that has caused this.
I have always been a Republican. First voted for President when Richard Nixon was elected.
Unfortunately I have cousins who do not believe that anything has changed since 1865. Does that make them bad people? No. But they are dumb as dirt when it comes to this mess we are in.