El Paso has some, but it is not like Austin.
I lived in Western NM for 14 years. There were genuine lefties there. A mine-union town was the education of this old West Texas Farm Boy. I did battle with the surrogates of the Sandanistas there during the 1980’s. Lived in a town were Dem to GOP was 5 to 1.
El Paso is not like that. Military element, old Hispanic families, many good business people. Yes, the border influence is a real negative.
Many families are married across the border. Most of those own property on both sides of the border.
Have read that about 1/3 of Juarez is unoccupied because of the drug violence. Probably true.
We lived in El Paso in the mid 50’s when I was a little boy. My dad had his office on Santa Fe Street just south of downtown. In those days, people routinely crossed the Santa Fe bridge several times a day. We went to Juarez quite regularly. It was a nice place to live in those days. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case anymore. I was there a couple of years ago and the city has turned really bad, particularly in the area around I-10. The old historic areas are still pretty nice, though. The area north of UTEP has some very beautiful houses, many of them built in the 1800’s that are quite stunning. Cuidad Juarez has turned into a war zone. El Paso is the Poster Child for our lack of resolve to secure the Southern border.