Posted on 06/27/2019 6:02:50 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
I always liked the idea of Texas—a massive, arrogant, sun-scorched, red-blooded homeland for impenitent cattle rustlers who provided a cultural counterpoint to the sniffly, snobby classes of the Eastern seaboard. Back when America was all about expansion rather than retreat, Texas was far more American than anything you could scrape up from either coastline.
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Yes there are all kinds there indeed, including a mosque and school. We have met people from Washington state and a Jamaican house flipper-LOL.
However compared to Houston it is pretty tame...
Don’t tell Houston peeps about Katrina it wiped out West Houston.
It’s still off the beaten path compared to many bigger TX cities & my husband has 120 raw acreage near Henderson. So the best of both worlds.
Not really worried about being in the minority per se. It doesn't take many smart determined people to take back what they lost. That's what I'm preparing my kids for.
There is probably almost no point in bothering to bring
this up but not all Californians are the same. As a
matter of fact I’m pretty sure you would find that you
would rather have this fourth generation rural
Californian for a neighbor than your average fourth
generation Houstonian. The Californians I know who have
moved away did so because the urbanites retired here to
the rural hill country, got themselves on the local
planning commissions, then started screwing things up.
You don’t know the decent, conservative Cali
expatriates because they are conservatives who know
to STFU.
I suspect that the liberal Californians who move to
Texas and elsewhere might have gone there because
people like Rick Perry had recruited their jobs away.
Or, maybe because they are stupid liberals they
have never grasped the concept of cause and effect.
I just know that as my own piece of heaven has grown
in population it has also grown in liberalism. I
was among the mistaken who was libertarian enough not
to be worried about the population increases in the
70s and 80s. Yah, big mistake. Your “Kalifornians”
today were our New Yorkers thirty years ago. Yah, we
not only had a liberal urban invasion, we also
had an East Coast liberal invasion.
Texas and Florida were numbers one and two in popular
votes for Trump in ‘16, You know which state was
number three? I’ve been told it was California.
You’ve nailed it. Cities are liberal. Non-cities are not. More people crowding into cities = more liberal votes. Not a white or brown issue. Something about big cities ruins the mind. Or maybe the soul. Robs it of independence.
Different state, but urban sprawl has reached out 20 miles and is forcing us to move. Again. Hopefully next year. Looking for towns with little or no population growth in the last 30 years. Maybe I can find a place to live in until I die.
We had a large acreage deer camp near Burnet when I was a kid
It’s still ok around there...
Northwest coast of Lake Buchanan
San Antonio and Austin suburbs are now in the Hill Country I’ve noticed
Trump got percentage - votes
52.5% 4,685,047 TX #1
49.0% 4,617,886 Fl #2
31.9% 4,483,810 CA. #3
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