All the major cities in Texas voted BLUE in the 2016 election except for Amarillo (God bless you people!) If it's "urban" it's liberal.
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Thankfully the rural and suburban folks were able to outweigh the major population centers. Please note the BLUE areas and what they border. Hmmm...
Unfortunately, there are many states where there are not enough 'other' people to counter the big, dominant city vote. Eastern WA gets dictated to by the I-5 corridor cities (Seattle/Tacoma/Olympia). All of CO gets to live as Denver and the surrounding-attached cities dictate. Colorado Springs used to provide some of a counter-balance to that, but not anymore. NM is driven purely by Albuquerque and Santa Fe and those towns are now solidly blue. (NM has always been a 'Democrat' state, but they were southern, conservative-type Democrats who could be confused with Republicans anywhere else...but not anymore
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Texas CAN survive but we need PRO-GUN people to move here from their 'over-run' communist states and VOTE PRO-GUN. Not 'save the environment'. Not 'protect the unions'. Not 'free-education'. Not 'Medicare for all'. PRO-GUN. Once we send the politicians the message that gun control is NOT A WINNING STRATEGY, only THEN can we debate and vote on the other issues.
Vote freedom first. Once we beat that into the politicians heads, then we can debate the 'other things'.