Dallas turns blue and very unsafe: The Texas electoral map looks pretty red except for those blue squares in Dallas and other cities

American Thinker ^ | 11/18/2020 | Silvio Canto, Jr.

[SeekAndFind]

The Texas electoral map looks pretty red except for those blue squares in Dallas and other cities. Yes, Texas is starting to look a lot like other states where people live in Democrat cities, competitive suburbs and rural areas dominated by the GOP.

So what happens in blue cities?  Crime goes up, and Dallas is no exception, as we see in these news reports:   

A new spike in violent crime drew response Monday from Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and Police Chief U. Renee Hall.

Since Wednesday, there have been at least 24 shootings with 29 victims and 11 deaths.

The string of violence began Wednesday afternoon with the freeway killing of Dallas rap music star Mo3, known to his family as Melvin Noble. The 28-year old was a Dallas native. He was shot in the middle of the day on the I-35E R. L.Thornton Freeway as he tried to run away, police said.

A sad story but getting more common.   I've lived in this area since 1984 and we did not have this problem years ago.  There was your occasional crime of passion but not crime like this.  Who knew that Dallas would remind us of Chicago’s weekend shootouts?

Of course, crime has other consequences.  It drives people to the suburbs.  It discourages businesses moving to Texas from selecting Dallas as their home addresses.  Like other blue cities, Dallas is short on police officers.

So what's our city council doing?  They are talking about bringing down statues and discussing our "racist" past.  Maybe they should talk about our growing crime problem.

[aquila48]

It also turns a lot less white.

[Republican Wildcat]

That is correct. Biden (or rather his campaign team) ran one of the most aggressive campaigns in modern history and specifically targeted those kinds of voters - and did so completely uncontested by the Trump campaign on most media outlets. There are indeed consequences for allowing your opponent to define himself entirely uncontested and also define and frame the issues of the race uncontested. False narratives become the truth if they are not challenged with the alternate story. The doddering old man who couldn’t spit out complete sentences was not the Biden most Americans saw during this campaign.

[tbw2]

Actually, Dominion voting systems are probably what turned Tarrant County purple in 2020.

Tarrant County’s new voting machines should be ready by Nov.
www.star-telegram.com › election › article233785927
Aug 13, 2019 — Tarrant County officials approved spending $11 million on new election ... and Dominion Voting Systems, and a panel of 13 election and county ...