Would be interesting to hear some examples, what are these liberal things you notice? Or are you just talking about noticing when someone speaks liberal?

Nothing wrong with Texas, real presidents come from Texas. It's the rest of the states that have a problem. States like that cesspool NY are the ones that need to go.

Like the famous line- Don't mess with Texas

so here's where i'm coming from re: austin being highlighted as the liberal oasis of Texas. it implies and suggests strongly that the rest of the state is conservative.

and that is just not true.

i did some more googling, and sure enough, some signficant research points to Austin being the 13th most liberal big city in America, scoring -1 on the chart. but here's the thing-

the other big cities in Texas scored neutral in the results. they are not liberal, but they are not conservative either.

Urban ideologies | The Economist

http://i.imgur.com/3iPSsGw.png

liberal local government policies, doing real things to help the homeless, to help lost pets, for instance. also, and more importantly, the real locals. chitty chat, idle comments. sure there are quirky people there, shit, a friend there had like 30 piercings on his nutsack alone. he was an austin trust fund baby, i banged his niece, :1orglaugh:)

nevertheless, there were 5x as many rednecks there who would beat the shit out of him for it too.

One of the most, if not the most successful/stable economies in the USA in terms of consistent growth, should be given to a Narco-State with which the US shares a border with.

Makes sense. Someone clearly has a great of macro economics, state security, national security, crime, drug smuggling. human trafficking and so on....

No, you're right. There are a lot of people like that in Austin. But the city is still liberal relative to the rest of Texas. For instance, UT always gets compared to Texas A&M. Relative to A&M, UT is very liberal just as Austin is very liberal when compared to college station. But when you compare UT to like Berkeley or NYU, it seems relatively conservative in comparison.

Then when you consider that pretty much the entire area in pink on this map is considered to be the Texas bible belt (ie, dry counties etc.), Austin seems even more liberal.

http://i.imgur.com/DgfWNcQ.png

Top industry in Austin is tech. Top industries in both Houston and, at least historically,in Dallas have been oil and gas.

Also, being considered a liberal in Texas is a lot different than being considered a liberal in like Boston, NYC, LA, SF, etc. For instance, I consider myself to be a moderate democrat. In Texas, I'm considered to be very liberal yet here in NYC, I'm practically a Republican and as a matter of fact I actually did vote for Bloomberg 3 times.

All it takes is a mere glance at the demographics of those other big cities to see why they skew liberal. :1orglaugh

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your move to east coast looks like my moving from pasadena, tx to san francisco! that same gal at UT thati was running with, went on to Hastings law, we moved, i worked and she went to school and the bar, then i went to school.

that move was an eye opener.

no shit right! i was stunned a while back to learn that San Antonio exploded in population. wow! i've got most all my family back in Texas now, on account of the o&g boom. i still not going back. it's hot there. hot like louisiana hot. fuck!

This is called the Texas Two-Step......

.....FIDDY cool Texans!

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odd comment given texas is a taker state that provides mexican narcos sweet guns. no matter, so many mexis are flooding the state, the mexicans are basically taking it back. same way the jews are taking away palestine.

:Oh crap