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kentauros

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20. If Austin is the only place in Texas that comes to mind,

Reply to JW2020 (Original post)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 10:02 AM

Jun 2013

then your mind is way out of date!

Have a look at this map and link, please

http://politicker.com/2012/11/the-purple-election-map/

Austin's main focus is not education, either. It's the state capital. UT accounts for a small percentage of their population. Plus, if you look at San Antonio, they're a military town (Air Force and Army) yet are still quite blue.

Houston used to be primarily Oil Country, and yet we're turning blue. The universities and colleges we've had here for decades (or longer) haven't had an impact on our voting records, probably due to the high-percentage of out of district students here.

So, there have to be other factors going on besides the rather simplistic notion of a place being a "college town." In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to call the biggest college-town in Texas as anything but hardcore-rightwing (College Station, home of Texas A&M.)

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Liberal enclaves in a sea of conservatism [View all] JW2020 Jun 2013 OP

I don't think smugness helps us Recursion Jun 2013 #1

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Huh? Where did you see this: FSogol Jun 2013 #10

A CBS survey, IIRC Recursion Jun 2013 #13

I find that really hard to believe. n/t FSogol Jun 2013 #14

Why? They're also richer, older, and whiter than the median American Recursion Jun 2013 #16

Because of the moronic (or is it moranic?) nature of their cause? FSogol Jun 2013 #18

It is hard to believe. I was surprised to see the numbers a few years ago. progressoid Jun 2013 #28

Thanks for the study. n/t FSogol Jun 2013 #29

Yeah, that is the problem with pipoman Jun 2013 #3

"pseudo" JW2020 Jun 2013 #5

LOL..case in point pipoman Jun 2013 #7

GWB had academic credentials pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #4

academic maybe JW2020 Jun 2013 #6

You focused on bastions of higher education pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #8

Education does not automatically HappyMe Jun 2013 #9

Take Republican economists, for example pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #11

I'll take liberal smugness over brain-dead conservatism, any day..... (nt) Paladin Jun 2013 #12

But voters in a majority of districts don't, which is our problem (nt) Recursion Jun 2013 #15

Grinnell, Iowa CanonRay Jun 2013 #17

It's not only academic towns tabbycat31 Jun 2013 #19

If Austin is the only place in Texas that comes to mind, kentauros Jun 2013 #20

Good points. Some of the most conservative people I know live in Austin. (nt) Paladin Jun 2013 #21

Austin has changed, considerably. kentauros Jun 2013 #22

I couldn't agree with you more. Paladin Jun 2013 #23

You know better than I do. kentauros Jun 2013 #24

Houston's traffic is better managed than is Austin's. Paladin Jun 2013 #25

At first, I balked at us having better managed traffic. kentauros Jun 2013 #27

College towns are liberal because the students are young and from out of town FarCenter Jun 2013 #26

The mayor of Charlottesville is Sikh. JW2020 Jun 2013 #30

Nikki Haley, the Republican Governor of South Carolina, is a Sikh. FarCenter Jun 2013 #31