No, I completely agree. I used to go to Austin to do business with Applied Materials (a Silicon Valley Company). They brought their “ideas” to Austin, no question. Austin is more unlike Texas than most of the rest of the state, just like San Francisco isn't really representative of most of California. But I also have a good friend who moved to Austin to take a senior position with Tracor some years ago. He had a lot of money, relatively speaking from the sale of his home here, so he built a big place “up on the hill” with the UTA professors. After seven years, his wife said she would not stay one more minute in Texas, as their “neighbors” had routinely ostracized them because they weren't “real Texans.”You don't find that kind of bigotry here in California, just saying.
Perhaps it's because they were still acting like Californians, rather than Texans.
I have friends from all over the country. One couple is Canadian, and only became US citizens a few years ago. But, they are as conservative as any friends I have.
Others are Hillary supporters from the northeast US. I don't spend much time with them.