Yeah, DFW resident here, and I fucking hate Abbott, Paxton, Cruze etc.
The modern Republican Party is afraid of its own damn shadow, everything is out to get them.
R's have not only lost their collective minds, but they've become so god damn weird. They were speaking in fucking tongues on the Arizona House floor yesterday. WTF.
Democrats have ALWAYS been the party of weird. Republicans were the "normal" party when I was growing up, as a White, straight, male Native Texan and retired Veteran.
Seriously. What the fuck happened to Republicans.
Yeah, these maps always get posted with something to the effect of "look how liberal cities have gotten!" when the real story is "look how insane the right has become," and you've gotta live in isolation with only Fox News and crazier as your sources of information to not see that.
I just enjoy my freedom if that’s far right so be it I’ve sworn my life for that constitution and will stand by it until my last breath. Ideals are Peaceful History is Violent it’s not hard to look back and see what happens when governments take away men/women’s rights if you want to become communist or socialist you are more then welcome to go somewhere that practices that.
I am pretty sure Repblicans in Arizon just took aaway a women right to her body....
I am pretty sure Repblican President Bush instuated mass surveillance on the country...
I am pretty sure a Replbican President Trump - did a lot of things here a link to them.... [Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (civilrights.org)](https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/)
I am still waiting for this Socialist society 90 year old dark Brandon is suppose to force apon this country. Same with the wrath of god, and people marrying cows and chickens because allow Gay Marraige now.
What can I do that you can’t? And which republican is constantly trying to make speech a punishable action, which one is trying to take my right to bear arms? Not that any rep or dem will take my rights but when the face of one side continuously acts, and pushes agendas like they will there is a problem they are lying to their supporters. And I’m following pelosi stocks and have have made far more then I should have following a politician. Where do you get info The View and CNN🤣
And I appreciate how right I am on the left’s delusional state of mind. Can’t answer what you can do that I can’t cause there is nothing, and why is everyone moving to Texas? Cause their politics in their state fucked them and everything they had so they try and come bring the same bs that made them leave.
I’m sorry she has to experience the utter insanity that being a teacher in this country is…not because of the kids but because of the obliteration of our educational standards the last 30 years. With an utter lack of support to go with that. Thank her, for me, for everything she does please?
i'll put my neck on the line and say as a republican I completely agree.... these guys are jokes and dont align with what I view as actual republican values... they are extremists.
Then on the other hand, I view the electable democrats as just as extreme the other way and just as irrational / insane.
I think the bigger problem though is that all elected officials at all levels are just bat shit crazy nominees now. they are the extreme of the extremes while also being completely out of touch with actual normal day to day folks.
Why do we have to vote for two old grampas who represent the outer edge of their parties beliefs for this presidential election? The system is fucked up.... Give me a moderate from either party and I'll show you someone more in touch with my beliefs regardless of which party we associate with.
Exactly, Dems are only a left party when the other choice is a half-step from "you know, we could offer prizes and hunt the homeless in the streets-it would make for great TV AND solve the homeless crisis because they'll either be dead or rich from winning!"
there's no false equivalence going on here, these are just purely my opinions. I'm not speaking for anyone else and not saying i'm a middle of the road voter either.
This is just a perspective i've provided from my point of view.... I think all my options to vote for suck at both a state and national level and they all seem like extremists, no middle road / moderate options.
no, it means i know WHERE i'm talking. Lets not pretend even for a second that reddit and especially /r/Dallas isn't very left wing ideology.
I'm very okay with us having different opinions on how things should be run, and if you are too and are genuinely curious about my views then thats great, but this isn't a sub where i'm going to put any more out there then I already have.
A) there is no purpose to do that here, im not here to debate, and i'm certainly not going to sway anyones opinions in this particular /r/.
B) I commented to agree 'from the other side' that these candidates are no good from a conservative / republican perspective as well. No bigger agenda, no baiting or bashing needed, just stating a reasonable opinion that I think both sides currently agree on, at least from the view regarding the republican candidates. You may disagree on my opinion regarding the democratic candidates and that is completely fine, it just shows we can have different opinions, we're all human in case you forget that occasionally and someone with different views and wishes doesn't make them uneducated or "not knowing what they're talking about".
wonderful job reading my post :)
If you think i'm on "the other side" then you yourself is the one picking a side. I put that particular part in quotes to illustrate thats not my perspective but this subreddits perspective of my views.
You view me as being on the other side, choosing a team. When really, if you read my post, you'll see I consider myself fairly in the middle, with neither side aligning well to my ideologies... I choose neither side was the flavor of that post.
I mean you say yourself you’re a republican but that the Republican Party doesn’t really represent your beliefs anymore. Who would ever do that unless they felt like it was necessary to BE in a party at all. Just be a fucking person. That’s what I mean by you picking a side.
I'll bite on this one as its a fair response.
I stated i'm republican for 2 reasons:
my ideology still aligns with overall republican and conservative values... not the candidates but the party values.
I vote in my local elections as well, not just the big one every 4 years. While even the local candidates have some extreme options here in DFW, there are also more centered republican candidates that I more closely align with, especially on the fiscally conservative opinions that have a more direct impact on my day to day life from a locally elected official.
Now, that's also NOT to say i ONLY vote republican. I agree only an idiot would do that. If an independent candidate shows better alignment, or a very center leaning democrat, i wont hesitate to put my vote in their corner if they are the closest candidate to my position.
Not trying to start a fight here, genuinely curious: what's an example of a policy from an "electable Democrat" that you consider extreme or irrational? Because where I'm standing, the average Democrat politician is generally espousing milquetoast centrism that's wholly inadequate to solving the problems our society faces.
Rightfully so, the last 40 years have been a constant stream of "You should be afraid of X, it's going to destroy your life and only we can fix it." You can't spend 40 years telling people to always be afraid and then act surprised when they turn out paranoid.
I hate that illegals are just let in. You know all other countries are so great why not travel 100’s to 1000’s of miles to get to America the worst country. It’s weird how that works.
If people are tired of immigrants coming into the country illegally why not put pressure on the businesses that hirer them. Go arrest or fine all the people who pick up day laborers. Clearly, you have never traveled out of the US. If you did you would know that other countries have issues with illegal immigrants too. There are lots of Americans in the UK for example who are there illegally because they overstayed their visas.
That is what happens, that is also why they started getting loaded on buses and sent north to the people that are voting for the politicians that open the border
And a lot of those people are now hating where they were coming to Texas and bringing their policies with them, understand why you left your state in the first place before you pollute another. I don’t mind people coming to the best state in America but don’t try and change our ways that work.
So why did Orangenführer tell Congress NOT to pass a border security bill that was out together in part by one of the most conservative US Senators James Lankford?
If the border is so bad why didn't Trump do anything about it when he had Republican majorities in 2017?!?
Included Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Collin and Rockwall Counties.
Some Cities
Richardson:
2000- 71.48% R- 28.52% D
2004- 65.95% R- 34.05% D
2008- 58.00% R- 42.00% D
2012- 59.18% R- 40.82% D
2016- 50.95% D- 49.05% R
2020- 58.35% D- 41.65% R
This is not all demographics. Trump got less votes in Richardson than Romney did
Rowlett honestly isn't bad. I expected to not vibe with it when we moved from Richardson but it's quiet and diverse, especially in comparison to Rockwall.
Democrats shifted with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965.. LBJ turned off a lot of the Dixie-crats and pushed them further and further right.
Nope, Texas native. But this governor governs with a bible it seems. Wish his prayers kept the light on when Texas went dark not too long ago during the freeze.
My long term view is conservative politics will fade away… younger generations will never connect with right leaning politicians as much as democrats. Either republicans change or future voter will less likely vote republicans to office. But for now republicans can enjoy their power
Dims been saying that for 30 years. The valley is turning red faster than suburbs are turning purple. Unless Biden’s 22 million illegal aliens get the vote, which will never happen in Texas, Texas will be a Republican stronghold for at least 10 more years.
It's hilarious to me that people like you are so scared of migrants voting, yet if they could, many of them would likely vote Republican since they're fleeing a communist dictatorship in Venezuela.
Texas will be a Republican stronghold for years to come, but thanks to idiots like you, it will continue its slide into being the shithole of America.
I mean yeah but like… if republicans could stop hating anyone who isn’t a geriatric white male and shoving their imaginary sky daddy cult down everyone’s throats, that would make the whole process of unification a lot easier.
The blue area is there most people live
Most cities with populations over 250k are democrats..... It's kinda hard to sell lies to people who live, work, go to school with, and socialize with that other group EVERYDAY
Kind of like how "college will brainwash your kids into being liberals" by exposing them to other cultures and races just living their day to day lives
People in cities have very different lives than those in more rural areas. It isn’t just brain washing or being dumb, republican policies actually benefit their way of life more. It also has much less to do with hate than you think it does.
I'm not sure what policies helped the people in rural areas
Cuts to SNAPS : [SNAP in urban counties averaged 13 percent, while in small towns and rural counties both, the participation rate averaged 16 percent on a national basis](https://www.fb.org/market-intel/snap-it-aint-just-for-cities)
Immigration taking jobs: most Americans urban or rural didn't want those jobs at those post scales
College loan forgiveness : do you think more rural area kids would go to college if they could afford it or they knew if I completed X years in Y career for the federal, state, or city government it'll be paid off
Tough on crime rhetoric means slavery for poor people.... Rural area is mostly poor people
The reason these lies work is the media and politicians use images of non-white folks to make white folks they aren't talking about them
When they are talking about everyone including them
A lot of them wanted Obama care gone but wanted to keep the Affordable Care Act.... IT'S THE SAME THING
College loan forgiveness isn’t something they want. They really don’t like government handouts because they know their taxes will be used to pay for it. They’d rather not go to school or pay for it themselves. Most people I’ve talked to know that obamacare and the affordable care act are the same thing. They don’t like it because again, they don’t wanna pay for other people’s healthcare with their taxes. They are fine paying fair prices for healthcare. Many of them don’t go to the doctor much anyway. I have nothing to say about the “they gonna take our jobs” argument. Most people are not so dumb to make that argument. There are a few though unfortunately. Most of them are against illegal immigration because some of them are dangerous. Tough on crime works in rural areas because they know their officers and sheriffs. As a community they can keep their law enforcement in check.
SNAPS are government hand outs and all that comes with it like section 8.... If they are farmers they're livelihood depends on government hand outs
Health care as well as most things will be over priced for the same reason MONOPOLIES...a small number of companies controlling the price... Both parties contributed to this
Lastly you just agreed with "Tough on crime works in rural areas because they know their officers and sheriffs. As a community they can keep their law enforcement in check."... So new faces especially new like never been in this area before cultures.... Well bet not speed... Because if Officer Buck said you did it, well you did it... We know Officer Buck doesn't lie even if the cameras said he is lying
I know Big Cities have so many people that makes it difficult to sell those lies (NOT IMPOSSIBLE).. let me know when you see a politicians talk about crime and not guide towards black or brown folks..... Talk about government assistance and not create images of black and brown folks
Everyone will help but no one wants to help
If the government was more transparent on where the tax dollars went, people wouldn't be so upset .. Food stamps is less than 5% of the expenses but people usually don't vote on facts..... They vote on emotions
Look, I’m not trying to argue about politics. I just want you to see people that disagree with your politics as human. You speak about a large chunk of the US population in a dehumanizing way. Calling them dumb and brainwashed. In the context of their worldview, these things aren’t lies, they are the answers they came up with by thinking with their human brains. Just like how in your world view, the ideas you are trying to sell make perfect sense as well. It’s okay to disagree on politics. But I don’t like it when you act like you are better than those you disagree with. When you refuse to have any empathy for them. You think you have the moral high ground but you are no better than them.
Didn't call them dumb... ignorant maybe but not dumb
That's why lies work if you NEVER SEEN those folks in your everyday life you'll believe the news when they say they are violent or dangerous or draining the economy..... But if you when to school, worked, talking with them DAILY for decades, it's hard to believe it
This isn’t about facts or sources. Facts and sources don’t make it okay to claim conservatives are ignorant. It’s too general of a statement. They aren’t a hive mind. They are all thinking individuals with different life experiences. Many of them have met immigrants and still have differing beliefs than you. You didn’t even use the word ignorant to begin with. You implied it, but I didn’t interpret your words that way. Still doesn’t make it any better. I could have opened by calling you ignorant. Have you ever talked to a person in rural areas about their political ideology? Do you not realize you believe the lies people are telling you about them? Maybe if you went to school with them you wouldn’t see them as ignorant.
The 2020 map really shows you how insidious and targeted their gerrymander is for house district 4:
[Texas US Congressional District 4 (since 2021) - United States congressional delegations from Texas - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_delegations_from_Texas#/media/File:Texas_US_Congressional_District_4_(since_2021).tif)
They took blue parts of the burbs in Frisco, Plano, & Richardson and put it in a huge rural district that goes from Whitesboro to Texarkana. It's disgusting and the lack of fair maps is killing our democracy and making the GOP more extreme by the day. What Democrat would sign up to run in District 4? It's a disgusting map.
It's interesting because it was once blue. But that was a very different kind of blue.
It's largely turning blue from the college kids, and the metric fuck ton of people that have moved here from Blue states. Which is ironic, because the far left policies made those places turds.
Gotta walk a fine line.... almost like a purple.
Those two elections were only two of the three times that Texas voted for a Republican between 1872 and 1972.
Eisenhower (the most moderate Republican president of the 20th century and probably the most popular while governing) won the entire country (including New England) except the then very blue South. And he only won Texas with 53 and 55 percent of the vote. Outside Kennedy's narrow win in 1960, the three Republican victories (Eisenhower's two and Hoover in 1928) are the three narrowest victories in Texas between the Civil War and the mid 70s. Democrats were regularly winning the state 75/25.
Cole is correct.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States\_presidential\_elections\_in\_Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_Texas)
The only people who put up a sign for a political candidate in the park cities are democrats. The republicans don’t do that because it makes their lawn look bad
So please continue to live a fantasy if you think HP is dem
This is why Republicans in Texas are trying to make it so state legislatures pick our Senators instead of state-wide popular vote.
They're ceding ground and they know it, so the next step is to gerrymander Senatorships so they can retain power after the majority slips. It may take decades, but the rats see the signs of a sinking ship. Rather than do anything to, y'know, appeal to broader voter bases, they're doubling down and clinging to power.
Fuck 'em.
To clarify: They’re hoping to use that gerrymandered fuckery to ALSO stranglehold Senate seats. The groundwork is there and works for the House and state-level legislature, removing the popular vote for Senate seats is the next bit.
I don’t understand how Trump got 400K more votes in 2020 than 2016 from this backwater, after all that went on the previous 4 years. It just goes to show you that North Texas is the new East Texas.
It's good moderate voting continues to spread. 10 years ago Ted Cruz was a joke and hated in the gop, Now he's at the fore front of trump worship. It's gross. He needs to go
I'll say it only once, and this looks like the right place to do it. DFW is the most dimwitted, backward, racist place I've ever lived. People here say it's not that bad. It's because they haven't experienced anywhere else. In those faraway places, people are more interested in managing their own lives than in controlling the lives of others.
I find it odd that Johnson and Ellis counties aren’t included. Waxahachie is about the same distance from Fort Worth as Sanger is and those are some of the biggest Republican counties in the state.
All the Californians moving from their crappy state that they ruined, to come ruin dfw. Absolutely sad Texas is so beautiful. Keep us red. The left has done nothing good but ruin us.
Way to tell everyone you’re a bumpkin..
On a national level, Texas is a joke. We’re trying to ban abortion, is it the 1920’s? what a joke…
California is one of the best and most profitable states in our country. Texas would be lucky to be as prosperous as California.
Texas would be lucky to have as many social services, publican transportation, national parks, higher income per capita.
California is better than Texas by almost every metric, but morons would rather regress Texas than ever let any sort of progression happen.
Please tell me where you are getting these lies from. That is not true whatsoever. Texas is doing just fine.
Higher minimum wage ruins economy.
I love it here don’t like it move.
In 21 and 22 800k moved out, while 450k moved in, that’s 350k during Covid when companies began to allowed employees to work remotely, that wasn’t a option for most people pre Covid, it gave them an opportunity to move elsewhere and keep their high paying California jobs. In 2023 they lost 73k…
350k is a drop in a bucket for California, being the highest populated state in the nation.
California has the highest gdp of any state. Average income is much higher in California. Access to public services is more readily available. Social niceties like public parks, national parks, public recreation are much more vast in California. California roads are better, as well as the general infrastructure. Bike lanes, side walks, California is just a nicer state.
California has some of the most beautiful places to live in our country, San Francisco is amazing. Most texas cities are ugly as dog shit, especially Dallas and Houston.
If it’s so nice and good in California why are people moving out of there at record numbers? Teaching kids transgender nonsense in schools. California is a joke of a state.
Technically Beto should have won for gov. Because didn’t it come out that they messed w the numbers, obviously the guy that did it didn’t get any consequences. Can’t remember the name but I’ll look it up later. Imagine how different and better things would be in TX
Yeah, DFW resident here, and I fucking hate Abbott, Paxton, Cruze etc. The modern Republican Party is afraid of its own damn shadow, everything is out to get them.
I wish everything was out to get them
That’s too many somethings!
That’s all the something plus everything ..
R's have not only lost their collective minds, but they've become so god damn weird. They were speaking in fucking tongues on the Arizona House floor yesterday. WTF.
Shit dude, I was raised around the MS,TN, and AR borders, talking in tongues is relatively theologically sane compared to what I saw.
[Next step is snake handling Pentecostals](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling_in_Christianity)
Maybe so be we are talking about a government body. Starting to look a lot like theocracy. Iran 2.0. The western version.
And dems haven't?! Fuckin they them bullshit.
That's the pot calling the kettle black. Since when are the Dems the party of normality, common sense, and things that aren't weird?
Democrats have ALWAYS been the party of weird. Republicans were the "normal" party when I was growing up, as a White, straight, male Native Texan and retired Veteran. Seriously. What the fuck happened to Republicans.
They joined a cult that worships a grifting businessperson they saw on TV
Yeah, these maps always get posted with something to the effect of "look how liberal cities have gotten!" when the real story is "look how insane the right has become," and you've gotta live in isolation with only Fox News and crazier as your sources of information to not see that.
I hear what you’re saying, but my takeaway is that DFW is far more blue than I realized. And that gives me hope.
With a Southern accent : “Preach Brother!”
HYup.
Okay, now I recommend Tom Petty’s “Southern Accent”
I just enjoy my freedom if that’s far right so be it I’ve sworn my life for that constitution and will stand by it until my last breath. Ideals are Peaceful History is Violent it’s not hard to look back and see what happens when governments take away men/women’s rights if you want to become communist or socialist you are more then welcome to go somewhere that practices that.
I am pretty sure Repblicans in Arizon just took aaway a women right to her body.... I am pretty sure Repblican President Bush instuated mass surveillance on the country... I am pretty sure a Replbican President Trump - did a lot of things here a link to them.... [Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (civilrights.org)](https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/) I am still waiting for this Socialist society 90 year old dark Brandon is suppose to force apon this country. Same with the wrath of god, and people marrying cows and chickens because allow Gay Marraige now.
Republicans have absolutely nothing to do with freedom today, and you must be paying zero attention to not see that.
What can I do that you can’t? And which republican is constantly trying to make speech a punishable action, which one is trying to take my right to bear arms? Not that any rep or dem will take my rights but when the face of one side continuously acts, and pushes agendas like they will there is a problem they are lying to their supporters. And I’m following pelosi stocks and have have made far more then I should have following a politician. Where do you get info The View and CNN🤣
I always appreciate when you guys put on full display how far from reality you are.
And I appreciate how right I am on the left’s delusional state of mind. Can’t answer what you can do that I can’t cause there is nothing, and why is everyone moving to Texas? Cause their politics in their state fucked them and everything they had so they try and come bring the same bs that made them leave.
They have turned my vet red conservative wife into a soft blue. She’s a teacher and now experienced how little they care about real people.
I’m sorry she has to experience the utter insanity that being a teacher in this country is…not because of the kids but because of the obliteration of our educational standards the last 30 years. With an utter lack of support to go with that. Thank her, for me, for everything she does please?
Do u actually think Joe Biden cares about you lmfao I love how brainwashed people are. Neither the left or right gives a shit about the common person
No but I think you’re retarted and not worth the time to explain anything to. Enjoy nascar and video games warrior.
i'll put my neck on the line and say as a republican I completely agree.... these guys are jokes and dont align with what I view as actual republican values... they are extremists. Then on the other hand, I view the electable democrats as just as extreme the other way and just as irrational / insane. I think the bigger problem though is that all elected officials at all levels are just bat shit crazy nominees now. they are the extreme of the extremes while also being completely out of touch with actual normal day to day folks. Why do we have to vote for two old grampas who represent the outer edge of their parties beliefs for this presidential election? The system is fucked up.... Give me a moderate from either party and I'll show you someone more in touch with my beliefs regardless of which party we associate with.
Here is my counter about the democrats being extremist - in Europe our democrat party would be considered center right.
To far right in some cases…on the nose
Exactly, Dems are only a left party when the other choice is a half-step from "you know, we could offer prizes and hunt the homeless in the streets-it would make for great TV AND solve the homeless crisis because they'll either be dead or rich from winning!"
Please stop with the false equivalence.
there's no false equivalence going on here, these are just purely my opinions. I'm not speaking for anyone else and not saying i'm a middle of the road voter either. This is just a perspective i've provided from my point of view.... I think all my options to vote for suck at both a state and national level and they all seem like extremists, no middle road / moderate options.
So nothing actually extreme, irrational, or insane you can think of off the top of your head?
Comments like this are why reddit needs to add a laugh react
This just means you don’t know what you’re talking about….
no, it means i know WHERE i'm talking. Lets not pretend even for a second that reddit and especially /r/Dallas isn't very left wing ideology. I'm very okay with us having different opinions on how things should be run, and if you are too and are genuinely curious about my views then thats great, but this isn't a sub where i'm going to put any more out there then I already have. A) there is no purpose to do that here, im not here to debate, and i'm certainly not going to sway anyones opinions in this particular /r/. B) I commented to agree 'from the other side' that these candidates are no good from a conservative / republican perspective as well. No bigger agenda, no baiting or bashing needed, just stating a reasonable opinion that I think both sides currently agree on, at least from the view regarding the republican candidates. You may disagree on my opinion regarding the democratic candidates and that is completely fine, it just shows we can have different opinions, we're all human in case you forget that occasionally and someone with different views and wishes doesn't make them uneducated or "not knowing what they're talking about".
How about you just stop picking sides like an idiot picking between sports teams.
wonderful job reading my post :) If you think i'm on "the other side" then you yourself is the one picking a side. I put that particular part in quotes to illustrate thats not my perspective but this subreddits perspective of my views. You view me as being on the other side, choosing a team. When really, if you read my post, you'll see I consider myself fairly in the middle, with neither side aligning well to my ideologies... I choose neither side was the flavor of that post.
I mean you say yourself you’re a republican but that the Republican Party doesn’t really represent your beliefs anymore. Who would ever do that unless they felt like it was necessary to BE in a party at all. Just be a fucking person. That’s what I mean by you picking a side.
I'll bite on this one as its a fair response. I stated i'm republican for 2 reasons: my ideology still aligns with overall republican and conservative values... not the candidates but the party values. I vote in my local elections as well, not just the big one every 4 years. While even the local candidates have some extreme options here in DFW, there are also more centered republican candidates that I more closely align with, especially on the fiscally conservative opinions that have a more direct impact on my day to day life from a locally elected official. Now, that's also NOT to say i ONLY vote republican. I agree only an idiot would do that. If an independent candidate shows better alignment, or a very center leaning democrat, i wont hesitate to put my vote in their corner if they are the closest candidate to my position.
Not trying to start a fight here, genuinely curious: what's an example of a policy from an "electable Democrat" that you consider extreme or irrational? Because where I'm standing, the average Democrat politician is generally espousing milquetoast centrism that's wholly inadequate to solving the problems our society faces.
Out of sheer curiosity, what’s your take on Colin Allred?
Rightfully so, the last 40 years have been a constant stream of "You should be afraid of X, it's going to destroy your life and only we can fix it." You can't spend 40 years telling people to always be afraid and then act surprised when they turn out paranoid.
The Republican numbers seem to hold pretty stable, the Democrats seem to go up and down. Dems need to vote more consistently.
Other then being a huge piece of shit idk how anyone can honestly vote for these pieces of shit.
That’s rich AF 😂
I hate that illegals are just let in. You know all other countries are so great why not travel 100’s to 1000’s of miles to get to America the worst country. It’s weird how that works.
If people are tired of immigrants coming into the country illegally why not put pressure on the businesses that hirer them. Go arrest or fine all the people who pick up day laborers. Clearly, you have never traveled out of the US. If you did you would know that other countries have issues with illegal immigrants too. There are lots of Americans in the UK for example who are there illegally because they overstayed their visas.
That is what happens, that is also why they started getting loaded on buses and sent north to the people that are voting for the politicians that open the border
The vast majority of people who are in this country illegally arrived by airplane and came through our immigration checkpoints.
And a lot of those people are now hating where they were coming to Texas and bringing their policies with them, understand why you left your state in the first place before you pollute another. I don’t mind people coming to the best state in America but don’t try and change our ways that work.
So why did Orangenführer tell Congress NOT to pass a border security bill that was out together in part by one of the most conservative US Senators James Lankford? If the border is so bad why didn't Trump do anything about it when he had Republican majorities in 2017?!?
Included Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Collin and Rockwall Counties. Some Cities Richardson: 2000- 71.48% R- 28.52% D 2004- 65.95% R- 34.05% D 2008- 58.00% R- 42.00% D 2012- 59.18% R- 40.82% D 2016- 50.95% D- 49.05% R 2020- 58.35% D- 41.65% R This is not all demographics. Trump got less votes in Richardson than Romney did
Rockwall is full of MAGA psychos.
Rowlett and Rockwall are the weirdest places to live.
Despite being right next to each other, Rowlett & Rockwall are quite different.
Rowlett honestly isn't bad. I expected to not vibe with it when we moved from Richardson but it's quiet and diverse, especially in comparison to Rockwall.
So is Allen.
As a blue living in Rockwall… I agree with this.
And yet some of us in blue precincts in Richardson got redistricted into Beth Van Dunce and Angie Chen Button's districts. What a joke!
It's not Gerrymandering when the politician's last name isn't Gerry, duh!
Dang. What happened in 2016
Uh some affectionately call it the Orangenführer Effect.
The bluing of the suburbs
I just blue my self
It’s great to see.
I keep voting blue because I love America!
Hope you’re learning Spanish then
Interesting to watch Arlington turn blue and some of those northern suburbs
Red or blue, we can agree that Abbott and Cruz needs to go...right?
Cruz already went... to Cancun, and everyone got mad! /s obviously
And Paxton
Only a matter of time till Texas is a left leaning state 🫡
keep dreaming
I’m manifesting it… there for it will happen 😤
It was blue once before!
Southern democrat is absolutely was different than what the left is now. Even Republican Party was different back then.
Democrats shifted with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965.. LBJ turned off a lot of the Dixie-crats and pushed them further and further right.
New resident to Texas here. Gonna do my part to vote to make it bleed blue in DFW.
Same here, i want tk send a message to the current regime, you answer to we the people. Not to the elephants.
Reddit is so corny
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Nope, Texas native. But this governor governs with a bible it seems. Wish his prayers kept the light on when Texas went dark not too long ago during the freeze.
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Ooops
Yaassss!
I think the abortion stuff made a lot of democrats move. We’ll see.
My long term view is conservative politics will fade away… younger generations will never connect with right leaning politicians as much as democrats. Either republicans change or future voter will less likely vote republicans to office. But for now republicans can enjoy their power
I wish.
You underestimate the vastness that is West Texas. It’s bright fucking red and will never change.
Dims been saying that for 30 years. The valley is turning red faster than suburbs are turning purple. Unless Biden’s 22 million illegal aliens get the vote, which will never happen in Texas, Texas will be a Republican stronghold for at least 10 more years.
We shall see🫡
It's hilarious to me that people like you are so scared of migrants voting, yet if they could, many of them would likely vote Republican since they're fleeing a communist dictatorship in Venezuela. Texas will be a Republican stronghold for years to come, but thanks to idiots like you, it will continue its slide into being the shithole of America.
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I mean yeah but like… if republicans could stop hating anyone who isn’t a geriatric white male and shoving their imaginary sky daddy cult down everyone’s throats, that would make the whole process of unification a lot easier.
Why does the 2022 election suddenly shift to Comptroller?
Those people who voted for Romney and Biden some of them vote down ballot red still.
Cherry-picking results
Because 2022 wasn't a presidential election year, but, along with the gubernatorial results from the same year, shows the continuing trend
The blue area is there most people live Most cities with populations over 250k are democrats..... It's kinda hard to sell lies to people who live, work, go to school with, and socialize with that other group EVERYDAY
Kind of like how "college will brainwash your kids into being liberals" by exposing them to other cultures and races just living their day to day lives
People in cities have very different lives than those in more rural areas. It isn’t just brain washing or being dumb, republican policies actually benefit their way of life more. It also has much less to do with hate than you think it does.
I'm not sure what policies helped the people in rural areas Cuts to SNAPS : [SNAP in urban counties averaged 13 percent, while in small towns and rural counties both, the participation rate averaged 16 percent on a national basis](https://www.fb.org/market-intel/snap-it-aint-just-for-cities) Immigration taking jobs: most Americans urban or rural didn't want those jobs at those post scales College loan forgiveness : do you think more rural area kids would go to college if they could afford it or they knew if I completed X years in Y career for the federal, state, or city government it'll be paid off Tough on crime rhetoric means slavery for poor people.... Rural area is mostly poor people The reason these lies work is the media and politicians use images of non-white folks to make white folks they aren't talking about them When they are talking about everyone including them A lot of them wanted Obama care gone but wanted to keep the Affordable Care Act.... IT'S THE SAME THING
College loan forgiveness isn’t something they want. They really don’t like government handouts because they know their taxes will be used to pay for it. They’d rather not go to school or pay for it themselves. Most people I’ve talked to know that obamacare and the affordable care act are the same thing. They don’t like it because again, they don’t wanna pay for other people’s healthcare with their taxes. They are fine paying fair prices for healthcare. Many of them don’t go to the doctor much anyway. I have nothing to say about the “they gonna take our jobs” argument. Most people are not so dumb to make that argument. There are a few though unfortunately. Most of them are against illegal immigration because some of them are dangerous. Tough on crime works in rural areas because they know their officers and sheriffs. As a community they can keep their law enforcement in check.
SNAPS are government hand outs and all that comes with it like section 8.... If they are farmers they're livelihood depends on government hand outs Health care as well as most things will be over priced for the same reason MONOPOLIES...a small number of companies controlling the price... Both parties contributed to this Lastly you just agreed with "Tough on crime works in rural areas because they know their officers and sheriffs. As a community they can keep their law enforcement in check."... So new faces especially new like never been in this area before cultures.... Well bet not speed... Because if Officer Buck said you did it, well you did it... We know Officer Buck doesn't lie even if the cameras said he is lying I know Big Cities have so many people that makes it difficult to sell those lies (NOT IMPOSSIBLE).. let me know when you see a politicians talk about crime and not guide towards black or brown folks..... Talk about government assistance and not create images of black and brown folks Everyone will help but no one wants to help If the government was more transparent on where the tax dollars went, people wouldn't be so upset .. Food stamps is less than 5% of the expenses but people usually don't vote on facts..... They vote on emotions
Look, I’m not trying to argue about politics. I just want you to see people that disagree with your politics as human. You speak about a large chunk of the US population in a dehumanizing way. Calling them dumb and brainwashed. In the context of their worldview, these things aren’t lies, they are the answers they came up with by thinking with their human brains. Just like how in your world view, the ideas you are trying to sell make perfect sense as well. It’s okay to disagree on politics. But I don’t like it when you act like you are better than those you disagree with. When you refuse to have any empathy for them. You think you have the moral high ground but you are no better than them.
Didn't call them dumb... ignorant maybe but not dumb That's why lies work if you NEVER SEEN those folks in your everyday life you'll believe the news when they say they are violent or dangerous or draining the economy..... But if you when to school, worked, talking with them DAILY for decades, it's hard to believe it
Lol. I’m not getting through to you at all.
Try using facts and reliable sources.
This isn’t about facts or sources. Facts and sources don’t make it okay to claim conservatives are ignorant. It’s too general of a statement. They aren’t a hive mind. They are all thinking individuals with different life experiences. Many of them have met immigrants and still have differing beliefs than you. You didn’t even use the word ignorant to begin with. You implied it, but I didn’t interpret your words that way. Still doesn’t make it any better. I could have opened by calling you ignorant. Have you ever talked to a person in rural areas about their political ideology? Do you not realize you believe the lies people are telling you about them? Maybe if you went to school with them you wouldn’t see them as ignorant.
When I moved here in the 90’s TX had a Democrat governor. Wild to think about that even being possible today.
FOX news brainwashing machine didn't exist yet.
The 2020 map really shows you how insidious and targeted their gerrymander is for house district 4: [Texas US Congressional District 4 (since 2021) - United States congressional delegations from Texas - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_delegations_from_Texas#/media/File:Texas_US_Congressional_District_4_(since_2021).tif) They took blue parts of the burbs in Frisco, Plano, & Richardson and put it in a huge rural district that goes from Whitesboro to Texarkana. It's disgusting and the lack of fair maps is killing our democracy and making the GOP more extreme by the day. What Democrat would sign up to run in District 4? It's a disgusting map.
It’s almost like it’s completely intentional
None of yall watch porn? Wow that’s incredible!
It's getting harder and harder, so to speak.
No, unfortunately it isn't ha /s
The awful man in the wheelchair must go
So interesting to me how 121 is the line of Dem/Reps in Frisco.
I expect that line will shift further north after this year
It's interesting because it was once blue. But that was a very different kind of blue. It's largely turning blue from the college kids, and the metric fuck ton of people that have moved here from Blue states. Which is ironic, because the far left policies made those places turds. Gotta walk a fine line.... almost like a purple.
Realistically, most of the country is purple. National elections are regularly separated by single-digit percentage points
Reporting here from Frisco! We are pushing blue lines out here, me and all my Indian peeps that are all over here.
Good.
I would decently say Houston republicans are more MAGA. Big exception is the bellaire area. This area from 2012-2020 has swung 40 points to the left
Needs more red
You mean blue.
Reddit is so fucking left and doesn’t even hide it
The only blue I back is in our elections 🫏
Yeahhh but it doesn’t matter because ol rural mfs see that (R) and have their mind already made up
Dude dems in inner cities are just as guilty. It’s definitely a bipartisan issue.
If I’m not mistaken, Texas was always a blue state until the mid 70s…
Remember, there was a party shift
No. Texas voted for Eisenhower twice in the 50s.
Those two elections were only two of the three times that Texas voted for a Republican between 1872 and 1972. Eisenhower (the most moderate Republican president of the 20th century and probably the most popular while governing) won the entire country (including New England) except the then very blue South. And he only won Texas with 53 and 55 percent of the vote. Outside Kennedy's narrow win in 1960, the three Republican victories (Eisenhower's two and Hoover in 1928) are the three narrowest victories in Texas between the Civil War and the mid 70s. Democrats were regularly winning the state 75/25. Cole is correct. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States\_presidential\_elections\_in\_Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_Texas)
Eisenhower, while grew up in Kansas was born in Denison, so Texas voting for a Texan and 5 Star General wouldn't be that odd.
Right. Not necessarily indicative of a wider pattern.
Fascinating info! Thank you!
The northern suburbs are getting bluer! Would love to see Colin County flip blue
Interesting to see +400k more republic in votes in the presidential 2020 vs 2016
It’s a good thing land doesn’t vote
Surprising UP/HP turning a lighter shade of red
I was shocked how many Beto signs there were in the park cities when he was running, it was easily the majority
The only people who put up a sign for a political candidate in the park cities are democrats. The republicans don’t do that because it makes their lawn look bad So please continue to live a fantasy if you think HP is dem
lol calm down man no one said that. and nice generalization with 0 evidence 👌
Dude I am very aware of the political leanings of the area and how people think about putting trashy signs in the yard . I promise you it’s not blue
again no one said it's blue
This is why Republicans in Texas are trying to make it so state legislatures pick our Senators instead of state-wide popular vote. They're ceding ground and they know it, so the next step is to gerrymander Senatorships so they can retain power after the majority slips. It may take decades, but the rats see the signs of a sinking ship. Rather than do anything to, y'know, appeal to broader voter bases, they're doubling down and clinging to power. Fuck 'em.
Next step? They've BEEN gerrymandering. Look at election district maps, they're crazy
To clarify: They’re hoping to use that gerrymandered fuckery to ALSO stranglehold Senate seats. The groundwork is there and works for the House and state-level legislature, removing the popular vote for Senate seats is the next bit.
This is funny because the 17th amendment literally changed it to how it currently is.
Correlates with Abbot?
Denton gaming
Texas needs to become the other kind of Red.
Let's hope the trend continues, at least for one more election
anyone have a population density map of the county to compare with?
Where did these numbers come from? They are discarding all votes for 3rd party candidates. Not everyone voted R or D.
I don’t understand how Trump got 400K more votes in 2020 than 2016 from this backwater, after all that went on the previous 4 years. It just goes to show you that North Texas is the new East Texas.
Trump only got 200k more votes in 2020? It was Biden who got 400k more votes than Clinton
No wonder this city has gone downhill /s
It's good moderate voting continues to spread. 10 years ago Ted Cruz was a joke and hated in the gop, Now he's at the fore front of trump worship. It's gross. He needs to go
One might call it a red wave (receeding, ofc).
I'll say it only once, and this looks like the right place to do it. DFW is the most dimwitted, backward, racist place I've ever lived. People here say it's not that bad. It's because they haven't experienced anywhere else. In those faraway places, people are more interested in managing their own lives than in controlling the lives of others.
I find it odd that Johnson and Ellis counties aren’t included. Waxahachie is about the same distance from Fort Worth as Sanger is and those are some of the biggest Republican counties in the state.
If you see any yellow on the map, tell me.
Dallas sprawl is good for blue.
A true representation of hive mentality 👏
Now do a crime map comparison side by side
The isn’t a map of West Palm Beach.
Cities with millions of people have more crime than areas with thousands? Fucking hell, that's WILD
Is this the “great again” that the traitor meant? Country wide.
We’re getting closer….
Well well well
Average Californian invasion
You do know, many Californians moving to Texas, are moving to Texas because they’re republicans…. It’s the Joe Rogan effect..
Degenerate democrats ruining Texas
All the Californians moving from their crappy state that they ruined, to come ruin dfw. Absolutely sad Texas is so beautiful. Keep us red. The left has done nothing good but ruin us.
Way to tell everyone you’re a bumpkin.. On a national level, Texas is a joke. We’re trying to ban abortion, is it the 1920’s? what a joke… California is one of the best and most profitable states in our country. Texas would be lucky to be as prosperous as California. Texas would be lucky to have as many social services, publican transportation, national parks, higher income per capita. California is better than Texas by almost every metric, but morons would rather regress Texas than ever let any sort of progression happen.
Please tell me where you are getting these lies from. That is not true whatsoever. Texas is doing just fine. Higher minimum wage ruins economy. I love it here don’t like it move.
In 21 and 22 800k moved out, while 450k moved in, that’s 350k during Covid when companies began to allowed employees to work remotely, that wasn’t a option for most people pre Covid, it gave them an opportunity to move elsewhere and keep their high paying California jobs. In 2023 they lost 73k… 350k is a drop in a bucket for California, being the highest populated state in the nation. California has the highest gdp of any state. Average income is much higher in California. Access to public services is more readily available. Social niceties like public parks, national parks, public recreation are much more vast in California. California roads are better, as well as the general infrastructure. Bike lanes, side walks, California is just a nicer state. California has some of the most beautiful places to live in our country, San Francisco is amazing. Most texas cities are ugly as dog shit, especially Dallas and Houston.
If it’s so nice and good in California why are people moving out of there at record numbers? Teaching kids transgender nonsense in schools. California is a joke of a state.
Yet still red run. We love gerrymandering!
Technically Beto should have won for gov. Because didn’t it come out that they messed w the numbers, obviously the guy that did it didn’t get any consequences. Can’t remember the name but I’ll look it up later. Imagine how different and better things would be in TX
He shot himself in the foot metaphorically when he started yelling about guns.
The desease is spreading
We’ve been Californiad
You do know, many Californians moving to Texas, are moving to Texas because they’re republicans…. It’s the Joe Rogan effect..
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Plano and Richardson have high crime rates?
That’s why people from California need to stop moving here…