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You really take your post over the top with your political agenda, get over it kid. Let me ask you has a Republican ever touched you or of the sort or is it just crazed media that you always bring politics into everything?
Listen kid, you havent gotten the 411 about the real world yet, but start working and youll know not everyone gives a flying f about your city like how you want them to. As for Texas's relevancy, seriously? You obviously dont know a thing about Texas's economic industries. California is in a league of its own, I agree but basing things off politics to decide whether a place is relevant or not is dumb.
Its also funny that a person from Los Angeles is lecturing about educated when it is of the least educated metros in the country, California has high educated metros but Los Angeles isnt one of them, its just another normal metro. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA CSA - Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2008
Los Angeles; Bachelor degree 27.5%, Highschool degree 77.3%
Dallas; highschool degree 81.3%, bachelor degree 28.9%.
Houston; highschool degree 28.0%, bachelor degree 80.1%
This thread isnt even for Texas but knowing you and your liberal conscience you sure know how to make it apart of the conversation, grow up kid. Experience life before you come here talking like youre a political sage.
Also throw in that neither Dallas nor Houston are particularly strong Republican strongholds. Neither Dallas nor Houston represent all of Texas, and whatever one perceives of Texas as a whole doesn't necessarily hold for all of Texas (because Texas is pretty goddamn big).
Also throw in that neither Dallas nor Houston are particularly strong Republican strongholds. Neither Dallas nor Houston represent all of Texas, and whatever one perceives of Texas as a whole doesn't necessarily hold for all of Texas (because Texas is pretty goddamn big).
Texas is a Red\ Republican state; there is no way to water down reality.
You really take your post over the top with your political agenda, get over it kid. Let me ask you has a Republican ever touched you or of the sort or is it just crazed media that you always bring politics into everything?
Listen kid, you havent gotten the 411 about the real world yet, but start working and youll know not everyone gives a flying f about your city like how you want them to. As for Texas's relevancy, seriously? You obviously dont know a thing about Texas's economic industries. California is in a league of its own, I agree but basing things off politics to decide whether a place is relevant or not is dumb.
Its also funny that a person from Los Angeles is lecturing about educated when it is of the least educated metros in the country, California has high educated metros but Los Angeles isnt one of them, its just another normal metro. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA CSA - Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2008
Los Angeles; .Highschool degree 77.3% Bachelor degree 27.5%
Dallas; .........Highschool degree 81.3%, Bachelor degree 28.9%.
Houston; , ....Highschool degree 80.1%, Bachelor degree 28.0%.
This thread isnt even for Texas but knowing you and your liberal conscience you sure know how to make it apart of the conversation, grow up kid. Experience life before you come here talking like youre a political sage.
Fixed the wording for you on the degree part, because Houston was backwards. I did not check whether the figures are accurate or not.
Texas is a Red\ Republican state; there is no way to water down reality.
Reality is not black or white (or red or blue). A state is huge, and we're talking about cities here. If you take a look at the fine print of most of these voting maps, you'll see that many blue states also have huge tracts that vote red (California included). There isn't a single state that consistently votes for one side with an overwhelming majority (the closest in the last presidential election was slightly less than 3 to 1 in Hawaii). Even California in the last presidential election went 8 to 5 for Obama. Texas had far closer results. Meanwhile, we have a Republican governor in CA.
Do you really think Houston will pass LA in population, maybe if it annexes more land but it would need a denisty of like 6,800 ppsm. There are very few areas today that surpass that today in the 600 sq miles so it will require a ton of in fill to surpass LA.
Reality is neither black or white (or red or blue). A state is huge, and we're talking about cities here. If you take a look at the fine print of most of these voting maps, you'll see that many blue states also have huge tracts that vote red (California included). There isn't a single state that consistently votes for one side with an overwhelming majority (the closest in the last presidential election was slightly less than 3 to 1 in Hawaii). Even California in the last presidential election went 8 to 5 for Obama. Meanwhile, we have a Republican governor in CA.
To compare a Republican ala Schwarzenegger to a governor Perry of Texas is so distorted as to be unrecognizable. Any Republican who manages to gain statewide office in California would be considered a Democrat in states like Texas. Arnold would never be elected in Texas or any Southern state.
Anyone who suggests that Texas\ Houston will ever overtake Los Angeles as the capitol of the West is some sort of Republican puritan who believes the Bible-belt has any influence on the country beyond the South. Los Angeles is the absolute antipathy of Texas; liberal, tolerant, educated and relevant. How the largest city in Texas can replace the capitol of the West Coast is nothing more than a fantasy that will never come about in our life times.
LA is losing power, Houston is gaining. The facts prove it, deal with it kid.
40 years ago Detroit was in the top 4. Look at it now. LA is going the way of Detroit.
Though the amount of infill we're talking about is pretty enormous.
Oh no doubt. It will take Houston to build a different type of density to increase its population at least in its core. It's starting to happen inside the loop though but I don't know if it's enough. Not to mention that highrise living isn't exactly popular in Houston yet.
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