Most conservative areas of Houston-Metro? (Dallas, Austin: crimes, quality of life, taxes)

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by Vicman

While much of rural Texas is conservative (rural areas in California and New York are conservative too) the population is increasingly becoming urban, so the conservative areas are representing a declining share of the population of Texas.

Interesting how conservative population decline and progress go hand and hand

[Ghost Town]

It's a bit outdated, but I think still valid in general.
Houston is not that bad compared to $hitholes like seattle or san francisco.

And increase in liberalism also goes in line with more $hit in the streets. Literally.

One of America's wealthiest cities has a huge problem with public poop.

Between 2011 and 2018, San Francisco experienced a massive increase in reported incidents of human feces found on public streets.

In 2011, just over 5,500 reports were logged by the San Francisco Department of Public Works; in 2018, the number increased to more than 28,000.

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-...han%2028%2C000.

Quite a good progress, right?

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Well I've always been interested in Virginia Beach. Didn't know it is so good. And surprisingly Colorado Springs is a quite conservative place...
And Jacksonville seems to be a true gem!

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by Ghost Town

And increase in liberalism also goes in line with more $hit in the streets. Literally.

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-...han%2028%2C000.

Quite a good progress, right?

Actually Houston has been the front runner on managing homelessness, going on a decade. There are plenty of public policy scholars who visit from all over the U.S.--even from Dallas and Austin--to see Houston's solutions and implementation on the issue.

Why homelessness is going down in Houston but up in Dallas | The Texas Tribune

All thanks to the Democratic mayors and city council!

I don't see anyone camping in underpasses around Houston anymore. It's been a while to see people setting up shop for the night there. However, the only encounters I've had with the homeless are panhandlers on street corners during the day.

[chris_ut]

Have you ever been to San Francisco or Seattle, Ghost Town? They are both quite nice. I lived in Seattle for a few years, never had any problems. San Francisco does have homeless issues but go to Midtown Houston by the grayhound station and you get the same stuff.

[TCHP]

Originally Posted by Ghost Town

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Well I've always been interested in Virginia Beach. Didn't know it is so good. And surprisingly Colorado Springs is a quite conservative place...
And Jacksonville seems to be a true gem!

I think its important to note that this chart on conservatism is about Municipal Policies of local governments. Colo Spgs does indeed have a very conservative government policy approach and tends to vote very conservatively in fiscal matters to a point of almost being ridiculous. It usually takes a special ballot measure with very specific criteria of collection and use for taxes to ever get any improvement on things. Colo Spgs also tends to be a very socially liberal city, despite the conservative approach to government and money, and is home to a well established liberal arts college, has a higher percentage of self identifying mixed race persons than nearby Denver, or even Los Angeles, and actually has a lower than national average participation in organized religion despite having some large evangelical organizations.

[Ghost Town]

Originally Posted by chris_ut

Have you ever been to San Francisco or Seattle, Ghost Town? They are both quite nice. I lived in Seattle for a few years, never had any problems. San Francisco does have homeless issues but go to Midtown Houston by the grayhound station and you get the same stuff.

I've seen some better times in SF.
Would not prefer to go there again. It looks nicer overall, but there are lots of places in the world that look nicer than Houston.

You can't deny the facts it's getting more and more polluted with human feces. I also can admit I've seen that in downtown Houston as well, but on much lower scale.

Also was quite disappointed in LA lately: too many homeless and mentally unstable people everywhere.

[Ghost Town]

Originally Posted by TCHP

I think its important to note that this chart on conservatism is about Municipal Policies of local governments. Colo Spgs does indeed have a very conservative government policy approach and tends to vote very conservatively in fiscal matters to a point of almost being ridiculous. It usually takes a special ballot measure with very specific criteria of collection and use for taxes to ever get any improvement on things. Colo Spgs also tends to be a very socially liberal city, despite the conservative approach to government and money, and is home to a well established liberal arts college, has a higher percentage of self identifying mixed race persons than nearby Denver, or even Los Angeles, and actually has a lower than national average participation in organized religion despite having some large evangelical organizations.

That's why I was really surprised with that city. As I said above, there are different definitions of liberal and conservative.
I actually lived on the East Coast on the border of DE, MD, PA and NJ states. I would say people there are fairly conservative socially.
And here in Sugar Land there are lots of even ultra conservative people from social point of view. But overall it has reputation of a 'liberal' place.

[H'ton]

Texas really doesn't need CONSERVATIVES or LIBERALS...we need open minded MODERATES who can have a intelligent conversation with someone without it turning into an emotional political pissing match.

In my opinion, anyone who identifies themselves as a Conservative (far right) or Liberal (far left) is someone I would rather NOT have in our state.

I've seen too many to know exactly how this is going to go.
Why support hate and division?...I just do not.

Luckily, Texas is inching ever closer to becoming a real PURPLE state!

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by TCHP

I think its important to note that this chart on conservatism is about Municipal Policies of local governments. Colo Spgs does indeed have a very conservative government policy approach and tends to vote very conservatively in fiscal matters to a point of almost being ridiculous. It usually takes a special ballot measure with very specific criteria of collection and use for taxes to ever get any improvement on things. Colo Spgs also tends to be a very socially liberal city, despite the conservative approach to government and money, and is home to a well established liberal arts college, has a higher percentage of self identifying mixed race persons than nearby Denver, or even Los Angeles, and actually has a lower than national average participation in organized religion despite having some large evangelical organizations.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...america-215313

One of the lessons: There’s a real cost to saving money.

Take the streetlights. Turning them off had saved the city about $1.25 million. What had not made the national news stories was what had happened while those lights were off. Copper thieves, emboldened by the opportunity to work without fear of electrocution, had worked overtime scavenging wire. Some, the City Council learned, had even dressed up as utility workers and pried open the boxes at the base of streetlights in broad daylight. Keeping the lights off might have saved some money in the short term, but the cost to fix what had been stolen ran to some $5 million.

Why live in that hellhole? They spent a dollar to save a dime! Not to mention the threat to public safety having dark public spaces.

[Vicman]

H'ton, that would mean banning political discourse on Facebook and banning political propaganda on Facebook. Otherwise 85% of the population is going to fall under both categories

Originally Posted by H'ton

Texas really doesn't need CONSERVATIVES or LIBERALS...we need open minded MODERATES who can have a intelligent conversation with someone without it turning into an emotional political pissing match.

In my opinion, anyone who identifies themselves as a Conservative (far right) or Liberal (far left) is someone I would rather NOT have in our state.

I've seen too many to know exactly how this is going to go.
Why support hate and division?...I just do not.

Luckily, Texas is inching ever closer to becoming a real PURPLE state!