Desperate Residents of Austin Completely Surrounded by Texas

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22. I don't know about Ft Worth, but your point about Austin is spot-on

It's not all that Liberal, it's where young people from other places get their first taste of Epicureanism, not well thought out, laced with whatever the current recreational enhancer, all under an umbrella of mutuality that is less tolerance than it is permission. It was a pretty little town, but it swelled up like a tick with more and more drop-outs from "the party school" slipping from whatever "philosophy" they started from to metamorphose into slackers then hangers-on, just never leaving. As for the politics, along with everything else, it's a matter of what is faddishly kewl for the moment, too kewl to be reliably Democratic, more like Libertarian, too often splitting the Left vote, even also to nihilistic non-voting. Hence, with other non-voting minorities, a Red state that would not be Red if all or most of the eligible voters voted.

Worse, "Hollywood" discovered it, and readers of the New Yorker (link in O.P. --- BOROWITZ is great btw).