Oryxslayer
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« on: February 16, 2019, 10:02:11 AM » |
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« edited: February 17, 2019, 04:37:26 PM by Oryxslayer »
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I mean, we can just look at Texas to see just how much these types of voters can differ depending on their views, the economic environment, polarization, and the candidates offered. \
First you have the Houston suburbs which are blood red. Characterized best by Montgomery county, you got the racial and religious factors at play here like in other Southern Suburbs.
Heading North to Dallas, we find wealthy regions more in line with the Sun-Belt style trends of 2016. The Uber-Wealthy regions like Highland Park are still red, but 2018 showed that the dems are now winning all of north Dallas and pushing North and west into places like Arlington and Plano. This trend seems to be more anti-trump and a rejection of the modern republican party, rather then true policy concerns.
Heading South we hit the Liberal Mecca of Austin. As we saw in 2018, Austin is expanding and those blue migrants are converting her suburbs. Migration of Democrats is the main driver here, and these people already have prescribed views. Wealth is therefore not the main demographic variable.
I'm skipping San Antonia, because its hard to get a read from a birds eye view on the wealthy whites in a region where most towns and precincts have significant minority population.
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