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Old 09-20-2022, 07:06 AM
 
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Texas is blue in the cities, and South Texas is mostly blue. It's the rural areas that are keeping the state red, and that's not really Texas's fault, because Texas is so big.
True,
but republicans in Texas also play games to make sure that the state stays under their control.

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Old 09-20-2022, 07:12 AM
 
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Texas is blue in the cities, and South Texas is mostly blue. It's the rural areas that are keeping the state red, and that's not really Texas's fault, because Texas is so big.
South texas is purple at this point.
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Old 09-20-2022, 08:05 AM
 
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True,
but republicans in Texas also play games to make sure that the state stays under their control.
Republicans would be all over square shaped or rectangular districts across the the state sized against population, only irregular at state and the Mexican borders.
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Old 09-20-2022, 08:08 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Republicans would be all over square shaped or rectangular districts across the the state sized against population, only irregular at state and the Mexican borders.
No political party wants square or rectangular districts. Republicans here sure as hell dont and Dems in Illinois dont either.

The state that actually does it best is California. There is no gerrymandering there because they created a non-partisian commission (5 democrats, 5 Republicans, and 4 independents) to draw all the districts. Thats why their districts look normal compared to places like Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, and Maryland.
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Old 09-20-2022, 09:09 AM
 
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No political party wants square or rectangular districts. Republicans here sure as hell dont and Dems in Illinois dont either.

The state that actually does it best is California. There is no gerrymandering there because they created a non-partisian commission (5 democrats, 5 Republicans, and 4 independents) to draw all the districts. Thats why their districts look normal compared to places like Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, and Maryland.
The first part is just incorrect.
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Old 09-20-2022, 09:12 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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The first part is just incorrect.
It is very much correct.
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Old 09-20-2022, 09:42 AM
 
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The entire state of Oklahoma (every single county) is red so I don’t think it’s accurate to say there are no red states. There are republican cities and there are democrat rural areas. Y’all are oversimplifying the issue.
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Old 09-20-2022, 10:28 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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The entire state of Oklahoma (every single county) is red so I don’t think it’s accurate to say there are no red states. There are republican cities and there are democrat rural areas. Y’all are oversimplifying the issue.
Vermont is also solid blue, but what I said is mostly correct.
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Old 09-20-2022, 11:22 AM
 
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True,
but republicans in Texas also play games to make sure that the state stays under their control.
To be fair, large chunks of those areas actually voted for Biden. Not sure what they will do for the state election but E and S.Austin metro are trended more blue during the presidential election. Not sure what San Antonio is doing but I would be pretty surprised if the areas deeper in SATX voted red... the areas along I-35 between SATX and Austin metro however are probably very conservative though.

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The entire state of Oklahoma (every single county) is red so I don’t think it’s accurate to say there are no red states. There are republican cities and there are democrat rural areas. Y’all are oversimplifying the issue.
Probably alittle oversimplified but I think its safe to say that most urban areas in this country are purple / blue and most rural areas trend more red. There are anomalies... San Diego and Miami are both red major cities.. ..but entirely polarized states are a rarity. Technically even California and Washington state are not entirely blue.
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Old 09-20-2022, 11:56 AM
 
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California is conservative outside of the metro areas.

San Antonio is surrounded on all sides by conservatives. Pretty sure bexar is the only county that votes blue. There are also lots of republicans in certain parts of town.
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