A large reason why Houston turned blue was due to the huge population transfer that happened after Hurricane Katrina in 2004. A large segment of people from New Orleans moved over into Houston and never went back. You can imagine the results. The thing that frustrates me the most about lefties flooding into Texas, however, (aside from turning the state blue) is the
insane urban sprawl that Texas has now. DFW is one gigantic splotch of subdivisions, highways and parking lots - same for Austin and San Antonio, and now the gorgeous pastures of central Texas Hill Country are being devoured by retiring Cali and northern boomers because Florida is full. Huge swaths are getting eaten up by HOA's, McMansions with driveways that look wide and long enough to be airstrips (for their huge S.U.V.s and pickup trucks they never use to haul anything) and strip malls as far as the eye can see. Add on top of that the huge population of illegals in TX and it's putting a strain on everything. I hate having to drive through an hour's worth of suburbia and big-box outlets just to get to that old gorgeous Texan countryside, which will inevitably get torn up for gas wells and ranch LARPing boomers... sorry for the rant.
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