[Milton Miteybad]

Houston is actually fairly conservative, except for the municipal government. Outside the Houston city limits, the suburbs are as conservative as it gets. Houston's character is much like that of it's primary industry, the international energy business, of which Houston is the undisputed world capital. Successful energy concerns are conservative by nature; one would expect the place where they live to be of a similar character.

Austin, on the other hand, after the crash-and-burn of Dell, really no longer has anything similar, other than state government. It's pretty much just an agglomeration of self-admiring communists, a overgrown burg with only mere pretensions of relevance, chock full of sniveling public sector losers who have completely forgotten who pays the bills in the first place.

But Austin does have some pretty good Mexican food. Credit where credit is due, and all that...

[jimt]

But Austin does have some pretty good Mexican food.

Nothing any better than what we have in Houston. We spend more per capita dining out than any other US city. Where Austin may have 1 or 2 restaurants of a given type, we have 10 or 20.