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It will be interesting to see exactly where Texas decides to come down if there really was a split in the US. I have to imagine they would want to follow the rich blue states rather than be stuck footing the bill for Arkansas and Mississippi.

I guess they probably just try to become their own country, like they already did once anyway.

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Texas is red (rural and suburban) with big dots of blue (urban).

If worse comes to worst, Texans will be fighting ourselves first.

Texas was Democratic 35 years ago. They also gain 100k Californians each year so becoming more and more purple.

> Texas was Democratic 35 years ago.

As I believe were many southern states at that time, but certainly not because they were at all "liberal", either by the standards of then or now.

Both parties have changed so much since then that it's a weak comparison at best.

I attended the Arkansas Governor's School in '92. The last with Clinton's influence. They had remarkably liberal programs to expose kids to the broader world. After that year the J-freaks took over and eliminated all of that programming to suit their flavor of bigotry but that doesn't erase the people that were and still are there.

That describes essentially every state in the Union. Illinois is red with big dots of blue.

Blue states are states where the big dots of blue are big enough to outweigh the rural red. The only major difference between Indiana and Illinois is Chicago.

>Texas is red (rural and suburban) with big dots of blue (urban).

Isn't every state including California? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

The only thing unique about CA here is the coast line, which is just a proxy for dense population.

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