“After all, just having progressives is t what makes for a Hell Hole. Their ideology has to have born fruit.”
Well, do you think Texas’ major “$hit hole cities” are any different than those you mention, aside from the fact that you might get away with carrying personal protection there a little easier? I mean Austin is Berkeley without SF Bay, Houston has had a succession of really strange liberal mayors, and SA is run by Mexicans. Time is now for you to admit that urban Texas is as big a mess as are the Midwestern cities you mention. It’s just that they haven’t been $hit holes for the past half century, but they are now. Furthermore, if “rural Texas” doesn’t take some action now, you will be subjects in the not too distant future.
True. Dallas has also been infested by cretins, and Ft Worth isn't far behind.
Time is now for you to admit that urban Texas is as big a mess as are the Midwestern cities you mention.
I wouldn't go quite that far, but it is heading in that direction.