Anonymous wrote:People are moving there voluntarily. Bicker about it all you want but they are choosing with their feet.

Not my choice, personally, but most people who live in Texas appear to really love Texas.

.... feet AND WALLETS....

There is a lot of money in TX - oil and business

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of companies are fleeing California for Texas. Think Oracle, Tesla, Ruiz Foods,
Kelly Moore Paints, etc. Whole Foods is HQs is in Austin. Texas is business friendly. People are following the jobs.

Texas has no individual state income taxes and cheaper real estate (or at least it used to be) than California.

Whole Foods was founded in Austin, it didn't move there. I remember visiting a Whole Foods in a liberal state about 30 years ago when the company was still young. The cashier was chatting me up and asked where I was from. When I said Austin, he said "oh wow, so a store like this with healthier options is a big change for you."

People are so prejudiced and ignorant about Texas. It's absolutely a massive state. Don't make generalizations about a place that takes longer to drive across than it does to drive from DC to Chicago.

So, does that mean you got your kid a hand gun for their first birthday and a semi automatic for their 2nd? Normally, we don't do safety training down here until the kid has amassed a small arsenal.

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Anonymous wrote:IF it follows the trend of the previous 5 years, then 80% of that migration is going into the urban and suburban area which trend more liberal vs the rural areas which trend more conservative. This is why Texas is heading towards being a purple state rather than a red one. The blue areas are growing significantly faster than the red areas. Trump won Texas in 2020, but only 630K votes. The last 4 years have show a significant growth in the most liberal areas of the state (Austin in #1, but Houston, Dallas and San Antonio area all likewise growing in liberal voters).

The November election in Texas should be interesting to watch.

Is Texas gerrymandered?

Yes, very. Texas’s most recent gerrymander managed to dilute all of the gains in voters who were overwhelmingly moving to the urban and suburban areas.

Both parties gerrymander. The AP seems to think the extent of gerrymandering each does is roughly equivalent.

https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-gerrymandering-2022-elections-e576c35ee37ef7ae14337953a42541c2

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Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of empty space in Texas. Alaska will be the next frontier with global warming.

Texas has a lot of space, but water will be an issue. It won’t trouble people now, but they’re heading for a crisis.

That's a very good point, but ultimately solvable with the new technologies that can literally pull moisture from the air.

lol ok sure because TX is at the forefront of avant garde technology. They even hate EVs.

Here’s what people need to understand about Texans and electric vehicles, Texas is big. It’s a different scale altogether. Not only are the distances vast, but a lot of it is empty.

For example, Google says the distance between Houston and El Paso is 746.5 miles. By comparison, it says the distance between DC and NYC is 224.8 miles. You could drive round trip DC to NYC, go back to New York City a second time, and still have 70 miles left over.

A lot of rural communities are pretty small. To go to the hospital, see a specialist, or do serious shopping, it might take hours.

If you want people in Texas to get behind EVs, you need to make the charge last a lot longer, with a much faster recharge.

I would also point out that while electric cars may be better for air pollution and conservation of fossil fuels, the lithium batteries they apparently require a lot of water to refine the lithium. While I’m not aware of lithium mining in Texas, specifically, it is apparently in other locations facing water shortages.

Here’s a report from PBS about the concerns that lithium mining will increase water shortages:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HA4kAVnwnEc

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Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of empty space in Texas. Alaska will be the next frontier with global warming.

Texas has a lot of space, but water will be an issue. It won’t trouble people now, but they’re heading for a crisis.

That's a very good point, but ultimately solvable with the new technologies that can literally pull moisture from the air.

That might be effective in humid east Texas, but you’ve clearly never experienced a west Texas sandstorm. There’s just not much moisture in the air.

People are moving there voluntarily. Bicker about it all you want but they are choosing with their feet.

Not my choice, personally, but most people who live in Texas appear to really love Texas.

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Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of empty space in Texas. Alaska will be the next frontier with global warming.

Texas has a lot of space, but water will be an issue. It won’t trouble people now, but they’re heading for a crisis.

+1 see also electrical grid capacity.

Anonymous wrote:IF it follows the trend of the previous 5 years, then 80% of that migration is going into the urban and suburban area which trend more liberal vs the rural areas which trend more conservative. This is why Texas is heading towards being a purple state rather than a red one. The blue areas are growing significantly faster than the red areas. Trump won Texas in 2020, but only 630K votes. The last 4 years have show a significant growth in the most liberal areas of the state (Austin in #1, but Houston, Dallas and San Antonio area all likewise growing in liberal voters).

The November election in Texas should be interesting to watch.

Paxton will just change the vote.
He even admitted it last time.

Texas is never going blue not be cause the people who vote will vote Red it is because Texas is a dictatorship. Abbott....

Electric grid in Texas is horrific good luck MAGA Morons.

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Anonymous wrote:IF it follows the trend of the previous 5 years, then 80% of that migration is going into the urban and suburban area which trend more liberal vs the rural areas which trend more conservative. This is why Texas is heading towards being a purple state rather than a red one. The blue areas are growing significantly faster than the red areas. Trump won Texas in 2020, but only 630K votes. The last 4 years have show a significant growth in the most liberal areas of the state (Austin in #1, but Houston, Dallas and San Antonio area all likewise growing in liberal voters).

The November election in Texas should be interesting to watch.

Is Texas gerrymandered?

Yes, very. Texas’s most recent gerrymander managed to dilute all of the gains in voters who were overwhelmingly moving to the urban and suburban areas.

Anonymous wrote:My friends and family in TX say most transplants are from CA and IL. They left high-cost areas and came for a career move…but they also admit fleeing the liberal politics and crime. They tend to seek out the predominantly white areas.

I don’t think TX will turn purple.

Ever watched the news in TX? TX citizens hate their social media and local listservs flooded with news on immigration and crime. Even liberals who move there eventually get sick of the impact on their state and communities…even when they live in nice areas largely unaffected by immigration or crime…same as other places.

where are those?

Anonymous wrote:My friends and family in TX say most transplants are from CA and IL. They left high-cost areas and came for a career move…but they also admit fleeing the liberal politics and crime. They tend to seek out the predominantly white areas.

I don’t think TX will turn purple.

Ever watched the news in TX? TX citizens hate their social media and local listservs flooded with news on immigration and crime. Even liberals who move there eventually get sick of the impact on their state and communities…even when they live in nice areas largely unaffected by immigration or crime…same as other places.

Yes. And even the mayors of liberal cities elsewhere are freaked out by immigration now that it's impacting them to a fraction of the degree that it has affected Texas for decades.

I'm pro-immigration. Let's let in everybody who doesn't have a criminal record and help them to settle in cities that are begging for population replenishment.

But do enforce the laws at the border already. In some Texas communities, it's like a sinking boat with more and more people climbing aboard. A strain on every kind of public and social service that my liberal friends in Montgomery County would be screaming about -- while also sanctimoniously disparaging Texas.

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Anonymous wrote:People are moving south because it is cheaper and warmer. No surprise.

it’s HOT and you have to drive everywhere. I’d rather move to Cleveland or Modesto.

The weather is a deterrent not an attraction in Texas. -- Expat who left because of the painful heat

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Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of empty space in Texas. Alaska will be the next frontier with global warming.

Texas has a lot of space, but water will be an issue. It won’t trouble people now, but they’re heading for a crisis.

That's a very good point, but ultimately solvable with the new technologies that can literally pull moisture from the air.

lol ok sure because TX is at the forefront of avant garde technology. They even hate EVs.

We've been able to hire a few STEM professionals from Texas in the past few years, and they have voluntarily moved to the DC metro.

I work for a trade association and many of our businesses are trying to get out of TX. Their politics are getting in the way of good business.