Fun fact about Harris County Texas

[Fuzzybigfoot]

If you exclude TX-7, Harris County gives Dukakis a 51%-49% edge (o/two party votes).  Mondale would've come within 6% points of winning it in 1984.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Interesting...of course these are the same suburban areas that make Texas so Republican.  The numbers aren't there for a generic Texas Democrat, since the playing field is so much in the GOP's favor.  If Democrats want Texas to be a swing state, they need to post better numbers in suburbs like these - because whoever dominates them, dominates Texas.

[Indy Texas]

The western half of Harris County is some of the most right-wing real estate in Texas.

Jack Fields - the Republican congressman who represented that iteration of TX-07 - was Mr. Conservative. Today, part of that area is represented in the state house by Debbie "Terror Babies" Riddle.

When I sit in traffic on my way to work on the Sam Houston Tollway, I'm surrounded by $60,000 pickup trucks with "NOBAMA" and NRA stickers on the back windows.

[lfromnj]

Wow. Sorry for the bump but just wow

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

Wow look what we have here...

In 2015 Harris County was a hotbed of the racist Tea Party ex-planterocracy; rednecks with money... 4 years later these people suddenly all became enlightened, moderate hero, "CuLtUrAl LiBeRaLs" who are being alienated en masse because the GOP in 2016 and onwards supported cracking down on illegal immigration (despite the fact this has been the case since basically forever and especially since the late 00s).

Its actually disturbing how easily history, even very recent history, can be rewritten because of narrative shifts.

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsCo/status/1001677316710420480

The original map.
Also just made a sh**tty approximation.  I think Trump won it by 6.

[OSR stands with Israel]

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsCo/status/1001677316710420480

The original map.
Also just made a sh**tty approximation.  I think Trump won it by 6.

I thought TX-7 was just a small part of Harris county

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsCo/status/1001677316710420480

The original map.
Also just made a sh**tty approximation.  I think Trump won it by 6.

I thought TX-7 was just a small part of Harris county

Well its the Original Tx 7th which was much larger as Harris county grew much faster than the country in the past 30 years. So yes OSR this was your favorite district in the 1980s as Reagan did just as good here as Trump did in Texas 13th. It was Reagans best district!

[OSR stands with Israel]

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsCo/status/1001677316710420480

The original map.
Also just made a sh**tty approximation.  I think Trump won it by 6.

I thought TX-7 was just a small part of Harris county

Well its the Original Tx 7th which was much larger as Harris county grew much faster than the country in the past 30 years. So yes OSR this was your favorite district in the 1980s as Reagan did just as good here as Trump did in Texas 13th. It was Reagans best district!

Nah Dallas>Houston

My favorite district in the 1980s was probably the district which contained Anaheim.