which is more conservative ..dallas or houston metro? (Austin, Garland: live, suburbs)

[scottyr]

i realize that both dallas and houston have a large liberal community downtown...but if you included suburbs and surrounding rural areas, which metro has more of a traditional cowboy/republican/Christian conservative attitude?

[doss1]

Originally Posted by scottyr

i realize that both dallas and houston have a large liberal community downtown...but if you included suburbs and surrounding rural areas, which metro has more of a traditional cowboy/republican/Christian conservative attitude?

Waco, I believe is the most conservative. There was, and still is, a liberal newspaper editor there that gets harrassed daily.

[scottyr]

Originally Posted by TexasNick

Waco, I believe is the most conservative. There was, and still is, a liberal newspaper editor there that gets harrassed daily.

thanks but i am only interested in the dallas-ftw metropolitan area in contrast to the houston-galveston metropolitan area. waco is its own metropolitan statistical area

[doss1]

Oh sorry, then I would say Dallas. Houston is way too multi-cultural and that tends to be tilted liberal based on history, world examples, and my opinion.

[TrueDat]

I posted this in another thread wondering if Asians would be accepted in Dallas. This recent Time story is about gays in Dallas but seems to be symptomatic of a general liberalization overall:

The Lavender Heart of Texas | TIME

[TexasNewbie]

TrueDat,

I am a Chinese and have lived in Frisco for 3 months now. I don't see any problem being accepted here, and I really enjoy DFW area.

[Guerilla]

Dallas is more conservative. Believe it (or not), Houston is a liberal city. The county it is in (Harris County), isn't.

[MaryS80]

Originally Posted by TrueDat

I posted this in another thread wondering if Asians would be accepted in Dallas. This recent Time story is about gays in Dallas but seems to be symptomatic of a general liberalization overall:

The Lavender Heart of Texas | TIME

The Garland/Richardson suburbs of Dallas have the second largest Asian community in Texas. Asians are very well accepted. We also have a lot of Indian and Middle Eastern people as well. Everyone gets along great here. In last Novembers elections Dallas mostly voted Democrat. I believe not even Austin pulled that off. There are still a lot of negative stereotypes floating around, ande people believe them. Dallas is not some city of rabid conservative business tycoons, and racist rednecks.

[TrueDat]

In re-reading my original post, I realize I made it seem as if I had been wondering about how Asians would be accepted in Dallas. It was someone in another forum, an Asian woman from California I believe, who was wondering if she would face racism if she moved to Dallas. I was responding to her post. I agree with all of you: that she'd be just fine in Dallas.

As for Houston and Dallas, and which is more liberal, I can't speak for the suburbs of either. But inside the loop of both is probably fairly even I think.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by Guerilla

Dallas is more conservative. Believe it (or not), Houston is a liberal city. The county it is in (Harris County), isn't.

Very true. But to be real. Dallas is also a liberal city. The democrats won Dallas County in last November's governor election. The democrats lost Dallas County 51% to 50% in the presidential election in 2004. I think Dallas County will now be soldily democratic from now on and it will slowly trickle to the counties surrounding them but it won't happen for a while. Heck, Dallas was said to be Texas most liberal city. Even more than Austin.

As a metro, I would assume that Dallas metro is more conservative. People think all of the Texas cities are republican conservative cities when that is not nearly the case.