Want out of a blue state.

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

Originally Posted by ReppingDFW

What's wrong with being in a purple state? Your vote actually matters there.

My thought exactly.

[rynetwo]

Originally Posted by ReppingDFW

What's wrong with being in a purple state? Your vote actually matters there.

Your vote matters in every state. In order for the battle grounds to even matter the candidates need to have their base states won. FYI I didn't say anything was wrong with being purple just that the NC reference was way off base.

[augiedogie]

I wouldn't be the farm yet on Texas going blue or purple. Our area here is close to 1/2 Hispanic, but the vote was 70-75 percent Republican. Not only that, but look at the large Hispanic populations in San Antonio and El Paso, and there's still lots of Republican support in these areas. Many Hispanics come here to work, have families, jobs, career, businesses. They play golf. Many of them want the same life lots of white people do. My next door neighbor is Hispanic, and he's the supervisor at one of the USPS offices in town. He keeps his house up, drives nice vehicles. They don't like the idea of giving their money to a bunch of lazy dead beats any more than a lot of white people.

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

^^^Hispanics have a very low voter turnout. The ones that do vote have a 70% chance of voting Democrat.

[Spade]

Not to mention that those areas around West Texas will soon become Downstate Illinois status meaning the urban vote will overwhelm the rural and small town vote. Looks at the maps. Most states have majority red counties. But hardly anyone lives in those counties. Texas is headed in that direction. Also, just because Texas could be a blue state doesn't mean it will be the same type of blue state as California or New York. People said the same thing about Virginia and Florida but the urban vote is starting to overcome the rural vote and its helping those states become purple. Again, if the Hispanics had a high voting turnout, the state would more likely be purple than solid red or solid blue. That's best anyway.

[ChristieP]

Originally Posted by justme02

^^^Hispanics have a very low voter turnout. The ones that do vote have a 70% chance of voting Democrat.

And remember that only US Citizens can vote. Many Hispanics are still Permanent Residents of their home country, not US Citizens.

[ReppingDFW]

Originally Posted by rynetwo

Your vote matters in every state. In order for the battle grounds to even matter the candidates need to have their base states won. FYI I didn't say anything was wrong with being purple just that the NC reference was way off base.

Well... my vote was pretty pointless. Texas's electoral votes were never predicted to be contested and most of the races, even my congressional district race, were Republicans running unopposed.