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Old 09-20-2022, 12:16 PM
 
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It is very much correct.
Like your mistaken claim about illegals from MX a few days ago?
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Old 09-20-2022, 01:54 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Like your mistaken claim about illegals from MX a few days ago?
Are you incapable at looking at a map of congressional districts? Its not hard to do.
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Old 09-20-2022, 03:32 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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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.



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.

Schertz/Cibolo/New Braunfels are definitely solid red. I'd have to assume San Marcos is blue. Not sure about Kyle/Buda but I'd imagine they're more towards the red spectrum than Austin is.

SA leans red outside of 410 on the N/NW side. The inner city is blue but IMO isn't the leftist type of Democrats you'd see in SF/Portland/Boston or even Austin to a degree. It's more of a blue collar *no pun intended* kind of Democrat for the most part.
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Old 09-20-2022, 07:13 PM
 
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I used to think the same thing regarding San Antonio being a “moderate blue” but then they elected the current mayor and idk what to think anymore.
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Old 09-21-2022, 05:42 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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I used to think the same thing regarding San Antonio being a “moderate blue” but then they elected the current mayor and idk what to think anymore.
I don't know too much/keep up with local politicians if I'm being honest. Is Nirenberg that hard left? I wonder how much of it is just pandering lol. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out in November though, seems like the RGV is shifting to a degree so I wonder if SA will be like that at all.
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Old 09-21-2022, 07:17 AM
 
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San Antonio has too many woke white people for that to happen. Also, I kind of doubt the valley keeps their conservative congresswoman. I think it was an anomaly caused by nobody voting in that election. However, I can see more rural south texas counties shifting red.

Ivy Taylor might be the last good/decent mayor San Antonio ever has.
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Old 09-21-2022, 07:21 AM
 
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I don't know too much/keep up with local politicians if I'm being honest. Is Nirenberg that hard left? I wonder how much of it is just pandering lol. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out in November though, seems like the RGV is shifting to a degree so I wonder if SA will be like that at all.
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In 2013, Nirenberg endorsed a city ordinance which bans discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Taylor, then also a member of the city council, voted against the ordinance. Taylor also opposed the city's filing of a lawsuit against the new state law which defines a misdemeanor offense for municipal officials who refuse to cooperate with federal authorities seeking to halt illegal immigration. Signed by Governor Greg Abbott, the law targets the sanctuary city movement. Nirenberg, conversely, backs the lawsuit.
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In 2019, Nirenberg supported and defended the move to have a Chick-fil-A restaurant removed from the concessions contract at the San Antonio International Airport, citing a conflict with the company's opposition to LGBTQ rights and that the company's closure on Sunday, done on religious grounds, would hurt revenue.
He might be the most far left mayor there has EVER been in south texas.
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Old 09-21-2022, 10:07 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Ahh so he was behind the whole Chick Fila at the airport fiasco lol. Makes sense. I'm honestly surprised SA goes along with it, it's really never struck me as a "woke" type city besides in certain parts like Southtown or even Alamo Heights I saw a lot of Biden flags, but it still seems 50/50 there.
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Old 09-21-2022, 11:02 AM
 
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It’s definitely not as bad as other major cities it’s size.
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Old 09-23-2022, 09:23 AM
 
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Texas isn't a red state. It's a non-voting state.

Consider that according to this site, in 2014, only 28.3% of registered voters in Texas voted, and in 2018, 46.5% voted.

Here's a site that shows the turnout and voter registration figures of elections in Texas, from 1970 to 2022.

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/election...al/70-92.shtml

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2014 - November (Gubernatorial)Registered Voters

14,025,441

Voting Age Population (VAP)

18,915,297

Percentage of VAP Registered

74.15%

Turnout

4,727,208

Percent of Turnout to Registered

33.70%

Percent of Turnout to VAP

24.99%

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2018 - November (Gubernatorial)Registered Voters

15,793,257

Voting Age Population (VAP)

19,900,980

Percentage of VAP Registered

79.36%

Turnout

8,371,655

Percent of Turnout to Registered

53.01%

Percent of Turnout to VAP

42.07%
Consider that Texas has the 2nd fewest number of registered voters in the country. Only Wyoming has fewer.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/st...oters-by-state

And look at these documents that rank the states by voter turnout, from 1976 to 2020, before and after the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

https://www.sos.nh.gov/sites/g/files...ts-4-19-21.pdf

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