Are all Texas cities “blue”? (Houston, Dallas: 2014, neighborhood, private schools)

[yukon]

Originally Posted by sinsativ

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Perhaps — and there’s not really a way to know for sure until November 6 — Texas is still a red, red Republican state. It is certainly not a blue state. But one way to explain all these weird polls and other political soundings is to say this red state is developing some purple splotches.

How else would you have a close Senate race and a blowout in the race for governor? Assuming almost every poll is right, that’s the situation with, on one hand, Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke, and, on the other hand, Greg Abbott and Lupe Valdez.

Three or four contests for Congress find Republican incumbents in electoral danger in districts that were drawn for them. Two or three state senators are in the same shape. Pundits are already preparing political obits for Republican state representatives in Dallas County, which has already shifted from red to purple to a reasonably convincing shade of Democratic blue.

Or maybe Texas voters are finally voting on the merits of individual candidates instead of blindly voting by party only.

[supfromthesite]

Yes, Beto has done a great job of appealing to conservatives!

[War Beagle]

Originally Posted by CapitalCityTodd

Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso and the Valley all are pretty blue, the rest of the state is pretty red, with Tarrant/Fort Worth being possibly purple, but mostly red.

Fort Bend is purplish red at this point. Hillary carried the county but Republicans usually seem to win the down ballot races.

But yes, the big 4 are very blue, but they are different shades of blue. Austin is more greenish blue whereas Houston has a libertarian tinge. However, a lot of the surrounding suburban cities are still red, but the intensity varies by election.

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by War Beagle

Austin is more greenish blue whereas Houston has a libertarian tinge. However, a lot of the surrounding suburban cities are still red, but the intensity varies by election.

How can Austin be a greenish blue without the social justice? People of color are being pushed out to exurbs and other Texas metros.

The northern county adjacent to central Dallas, Austin, and Houston are usually the top 3 conservative places in the state (in that order).

[Kthnry]

2016 election results

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by KerrTown

How can Austin be a greenish blue without the social justice? People of color are being pushed out to exurbs and other Texas metros.

"We like black people - as long as they don't move in next door."

[tcualum]

The green is for eco-friendly which has often nothing to do with social justice.

[JJG]

Originally Posted by Kthnry

2016 election results

Again, those are county results. They don't specifically tell you which specific cities voted blue.

[Kibby]

Originally Posted by KerrTown
How can Austin be a greenish blue without the social justice? People of color are being pushed out to exurbs and other Texas metros.

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

"We like black people - as long as they don't move in next door."

I grew up on the Coast in South Texas - never saw any discrimination. My high school had black students back in the 60's. You went to school wherever you lived.

I moved to Austin in the late 60's and found discrimination for the first time. Blacks lived East of I-35 - was told to stay away from anything East of I-35. I tend to agree with that "as long as they don't live next door" business, but I haven't lived there in a long time.

On the up side -- I now live in the DFW area (and have for well over 40 years) and can say with certainty that there is no single neighborhood or street in my City that is ALL Black or Brown. The town grew too fast to have those entrenched neighborhoods. People find a house they like and buy it, Black, Brown, Gay, Straight, Muslims ..... all live on my block and in my neighborhood.

[JJG]

Originally Posted by Kibby

On the up side -- I now live in the DFW area (and have for well over 40 years) and can say with certainty that there is no single neighborhood or street in my City that is ALL Black or Brown. The town grew too fast to have those entrenched neighborhoods. People find a house they like and buy it, Black, Brown, Gay, Straight, Muslims ..... all live on my block and in my neighborhood.

Yeah... but those neighborhoods still exist.

In Ft. Worth, Eastchase, Stop 6 (...for now), and Como are all or at least mostly black. The immediate northside & Stockyards area are all or mostly Hispanic/Mexican.

But DFW in general is more inclusive than Austin, for sure