That is true about rural Texas, but Houston is *still* more liberal than Dallas is. Dallas proper is liberal, but all the suburbs (where most people live) is very conservative.
Dallas surrounds two small cities - University Park and Highland Park. The former is the richest suburb (per capita) in the area, if memory serves, and the latter (which is the next richest) is the #1 zip code for Class III (machine gun) firearm ownership in the United States.
Your memory serves:)
We are getting off topic, but I have the numbers. In any event, Bush carried Harris County, and Dallas County by a hair (the metro areas of course are larger), and well, he lost LA county, by close to 2-1, by something like 800,000 votes.