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Originally Posted by Cory
Houston is moderate because it is a 500 plus square mile city in the south. Harris County is larger than a sh*t ton of metropolitan areas and is still Democratic. In fact, it is no longer the only county in the region to go Democrat. If Houston was just the half a million people that live in the loop, measures that have to do with sustainability would be easier to pass and a hell of a lot more manageable to regulate.
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And if Texas weeded out all the rural counties, it would be a blue state but it's not and that's not how it works. The entire east side of the Loop is not that 'progressive'; they vote democrat but the Heights, they are not.