As long as youre at least 70 miles away from Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio youll be fine. Liberals control all 4 of those cities.
I’m in San Antonio. I don’t have a problem here. Then again, I left Jersey to come home to Texas.
In NJ, Austin would be considered a Conservative enclave.
Wha? 7 miles N. of SanAn is Hill Country, God's Country. Almost anything north of 1604 is fine. 70 miles is like Fredericksburg, which I like but isn't a place I'd live.
OTOH, Houston, you need maybe half that 70 miles (again, north) to get to The Woodlands, which is as close as I'd live.
70 miles is a bit much. The most conservative county in Texas, Collin, is centered just 30 miles north of the city of Dallas and Collin County borders Dallas County on the northern edge.
But your point about the interior of those towns is spot on.
Denton County and Collin County are two of the reddest counties in the USA, both border Dallas County (within 35 miles).
You don't have to be 70 miles away. Just far enough away to live in a conservative county -- like Collin (north of Dallas) or Williamson (north of Austin).