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Theseus
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| I feel like Texas is awful without Austin. Oregon would still be pretty good without Portland. Austin it is. |
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lakersken80
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| Dominic1981 wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | but it is still a legit liberal city in a blue state, and in the last few years, blue neighborhood, blue city, blue state have become a lot more important. |
Yes. They are a city of refuge for homeless drug addicts and illegals. I live in Florida. We love Portland. We export all our trash there  |
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Omar Little
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| Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Theseus wrote: | | I feel like Texas is awful without Austin. Oregon would still be pretty good without Portland. Austin it is. |
You’d be pretty amazed by how quickly, outside of a few population centers like Portland, Oregon begins to resemble Texas. Same with Washington. Eastern Washington and Oregon, north Idaho (increasingly all of Idaho) and montana are hotbeds of militia and separatist ideology. Plenty of it in inland California too. Fwiw, Houston is probably bluer and more cosmopolitan than Austin. Austin just has the gentrified remnants of what used to be the epicenter of counterculture in Texas. But even within the city that diminishes as you move away from some core districts.
I don’t have it handy, but there is a map that shows the counties that contain over half the US population, and if you were to color those blue (because almost all of them are), the resulting sea of red would have you think that MAGA outnumbers decent folks. The reality is that they just live in much sparser areas so the map is full of red territory representing fewer people.
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DaMuleRules
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| Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Omar Little wrote: | | Theseus wrote: | | I feel like Texas is awful without Austin. Oregon would still be pretty good without Portland. Austin it is. |
You’d be pretty amazed by how quickly, outside of a few population centers like Portland, Oregon begins to resemble Texas. Same with Washington. Eastern Washington and Oregon, north Idaho (increasingly all of Idaho) and montana are hotbeds of militia and separatist ideology. Plenty of it in inland California too. Fwiw, Houston is probably bluer and more cosmopolitan than Austin. Austin just has the gentrified remnants of what used to be the epicenter of counterculture in Texas. But even within the city that diminishes as you move away from some core districts.
I don’t have it handy, but there is a map that shows the counties that contain over half the US population, and if you were to color those blue (because almost all of them are), the resulting sea of red would have you think that MAGA outnumbers decent folks. The reality is that they just live in much sparser areas so the map is full of red territory representing fewer people. |
Something like this?
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