Texas may be presidential player after all

Austin, Dallas, and Houston inner-city are all liberal, but they have conservative suburbs in each. El Paso, I don’t think, even has suburbs period, and is Democrat. Fort Worth is now more Republican than Dallas. Even Waco is less Democrat than in the past.

I live in Texas, and trust me....this state is NOT blue!

It will be within our lifetime, probably before 2020. Texas is a minority-majority state - whites are already at or below 45% of the state and have been for a few years, Hispanics will soon be passing them up, and Democrats and RINOs from California and New England have been moving into the state in large numbers for quite a while. If the GOP doesn't make serious inroads on the Hispanic vote, Texas' time as a Republican state will have barely lasted three decades.

Austin Texas is a liberal town but the rest of Texas is not.

Keep telling yourself that, and pretend that Dallas didn't elect an openly lesbian sheriff and Houston didn't elect an openly lesbian mayor, and pretend that the four largest cities and the border region didn't go for Obama in 2008. While you're at it, pretend that McCain/Palin won Texas by 9 million votes instead of 900,000. If you pretend hard enough, you might just convince yourself.

You need to travel outside of the four largest cities to find large conservative areas, and you need to stay away from the border counties.

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