Ok....I've said this here for YEARS beginning in 2001...

[DFW]

108. My outfit is in Texas, too, even though I live in Germany now.

We are somewhere around 550 people worldwide, but around 90% of them are in the Dallas HQ. Of them, 90% are either Texas-born or Mexican-born Texans. There are some immigrants (Brazil, Romania, Australia, Germany, Panama, South Africa, New England, etc.) but they are few in number. We aren't about to pack up and relocate, telling 450 families they have to move elsewhere, or lose their jobs. The two or three Republicans that work for us didn't ask us to move to Alabama when Ann Richards was governor, either. Most of our business is not in Texas itself, anyway. At any one time, maybe 100 of us are a plane to somewhere else. We have decent benefits, and employee turnover is extremely low. When we have events in Hong Kong, we try to rotate the people that go, so that a maximum of employees who could never otherwise afford a week in Hong Kong get to go on the company dime if they so desire. Boycotting Texas would hardly affect us at all, just the hotels near us, and even then only slightly. Us boycotting New York would have a bigger effect on the local economy, and that is obviously minimal. We are not the UN. The restaurants near us are always usually full of locals, anyway (no high powered places near our offices), so if no one from outside comes, they wouldn't even notice.

Dallas is a fairly liberal city, anyway. I was there for a week in January, and I did not once see anyone carrying a gun other than cops.

So, if the 5 million of us that voted Democratic in the last election (I still vote in Texas) are to be written off, so be it. Fear not, we're not going to start voting for Republicans just because some pundit says to write us off.

Come to think of it, better boycott South Dakota, as well, while you're at it. Noem is kind of a nut case in her own right. George McGovern and Tom Daschle never really existed, anyway, did they?