Since you were trying to shift the argument in your response to me, I will repeat: Texas Democrats, especially those of urban roots were not liberals. I grew up in TX. As has been posted here many times by other former TX democrats, most were more conservative, especially on social issues than "moderate" Republicans are now.
I don't know why you post things that can't be shown to be factual.
Your point is correct, with one caveat, you have got your terminology backwards. I lived for over a decade in Texas during the 80's and early 90's, consider myself a 'Texan By Choice', and only returned to Carolina because of family responsibilities. It was the Texans with "non-urban" roots who were conservative democrats. The urban centers in Texas, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and of course, Austin, were decidedly liberal even then.
I am not a Perry supporter. I will vote for him if he is the nominee, with great reluctance and sadness, but no illusions. He has many admirable qualities and is 'generally conservative' in a Rorschach blot sense, into which supporters can easily project their own desires, but in reality he's a stealth Trojan horse asset of the transnational globalist elites.
He is 'good ole boy' smart, and adept at reading the national public mood and tailoring his campaigning approach to take advantage of it, but on the big agenda globalist issues that are going to transform and destroy this country as we have known it, he will, once in office, do their bidding.
That said, Perry opponents who keep harping on the factoid that he was 'once a Democrat' are simply wrong and misguided. It's completely irrelevant to the very real arguments for opposing him now.