Political Scene In Texas

The political scene in Texas for the past twenty years has been consistently geared to one side (the right) and I do not see it changing anytime soon. This last presidential election was the most controversial and divided this country has seen in decades and if a change was going to happen, it would have happened this cycle. As the Texas counties started submitting their total vote counts for the presidency, the only counties that went blue were the counties with the major Texas cities in them, i.e. Austin and Dallas. The rest of the state stayed red. This trend hasn’t been uncommon. The other counties in all of the other states acted similarly. Austin voting blue was absolutely no surprise. I’ve lived in Texas most of my life and the social climate has been the same right-leaning way, except in Austin. The Texas capital seems to be the most liberal city in Texas and I personally know multiple people who have moved to Austin to be part of the democratic machine. But knowing those people and how they were, they are definitely the minority. The other part of my adult life was spent in the very liberal states of California and Hawaii, so I’ve seen first-hand how much the democratic political machine can have its hands in the social scene. Out of those two states, Hawaii

Prior to this event, the Dallas/Ft. Worth area was already turning blue, but only somewhat recently has it accelerated to the level it is at now. I see things on social media with people trying to push the whole “turn Texas blue,” movement, but again I do not see any real significant change because of things like this. Yes, during this year’s presidential election, the democrats were ahead in Texas for a brief moment, but when the rest of the counties were done voting, it wasn’t