I think that’s the point — the leftiness of Austin has dragged the whole state left, from deep red to lukewarm.
San Antonio does a fair job at going liberal. The Castro twin was mayor. They’re just scary, those two major invasion going on in that town besides. But Austin. We don’t talk about it much but friends will just say things like, on the way to A&M going through Austin we get tge holy water out. It’s not the news or events so much as a feeling. Exceptions to the late great and solid Christian Stevie Ray Vaughan whose memory and statue are there
Now Texas isn’t conservative enough, hilarious.