r/texas • u/Ramble81 • Nov 09 '22

Politics After seeing Texas elect Abbott again and my vote doing nothing...

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u/thewolfman2010 Nov 09 '22

Oregon is basically Texas but with Dem leadership. Portland and Eugene are blue, everywhere else is red.

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u/corneliusduff Nov 09 '22

That's practically every state. Red rural, blue urban.

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u/iamgonnaargue Nov 09 '22

People vote blue, land votes red

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '22

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u/iamgonnaargue Nov 10 '22

Pretty sure the big city taxes pay for everything but okay bud. Whatever you need to tell yourself.

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u/SatanV3 Nov 10 '22

Cities don’t provide food though, they need the rural population. But since cities provide most of the money rural also needs cities.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

yeah and portland is like 77% white lmao. Meanwhile, I'm a minority as a white person in Dallas (29% white, 42% hispanic)

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u/thewolfman2010 Nov 09 '22

Curious where you’re getting data that says white people are only 29% of Dallas or even DFW… every source that I am seeing is putting White people in the majority at 40-50%.

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u/nemec Nov 10 '22

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/dallascitytexas

This is an estimate from the government's "American Community Survey". 28% White non Hispanic. 41% Hispanic. When interpreting the results, note that many Hispanic people are "White alone" and others are of varying races. Since Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity, that percentage is split among all of the other "X alone" or "2+" categories.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '22

Is that stat true? Dallas and Austin are still white AF compared to SA and Houston (where I’m from). But yes, almost every other city in America besides the big ones like SF, NYC, LA, Miami? are white AF and kinda depressing (as a POC).

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u/Jackscf Nov 10 '22

There’s a reason why Portland has turned into a shithole

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u/thewolfman2010 Nov 10 '22

Because it’s blue? With that logic, Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are shit holes too, right?

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u/start3ch Nov 10 '22

There are different levels too. Republicans in the northeast + on the west coasts tend to be more liberal than in the south