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South Texas is a desert, and heavily Democrat. Brooks County Texas has never in history carried the Republican presidential candidate.
One very interesting thing about the red-blue map, is that Democratic belt across the south. You could walk from Macon, Mississippi to Norfolk, Virginia, in a fairly direct line with little zigzagging, and there are only two places where you'd need to walk a cross a county that carried McCain.
South Texas is a desert, and heavily Democrat. Brooks County Texas has never in history carried the Republican presidential candidate.
One very interesting thing about the red-blue map, is that Democratic belt across the south. You could walk from Macon, Mississippi to Norfolk, Virginia, in a fairly direct line with little zigzagging, and there are only two places where you'd need to walk a cross a county that carried McCain.
Southwest Texas is a desert. South Texas is hot and humid. Both are blue.
The lower Rio Grande gets around 20 inches of rain, so does not meet that definition of desert. But its high temperatures raise the transpiration rate above the precipitation, which many geographers classify as desert,as there is net drying tendency through the year, and very little vegetation grows there without irrigation, except fairly close to the gulf coast, which is more humid.
I'll 'third' northern New Mexico. The middle and upper Rio Grande Valley and its adjacent mountain areas are solidly democratic with bastions of urban liberals in the cities and enclaves of hippies and counterculture folks in the hinterlands and small towns. It gets more republican the further east, west and south you get from Albuquerque which itself is pretty diverse, politically, but probably has the largest concentration of liberal democrats in the state.
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