[reaperducer]

Serious question:do you still vote Democrat?

He said "Houston," so chances are the answer is yes.

People outside of Texas like to pretend that it's a solid red state. They conveniently don't bother to look at electoral maps and pretend that Austin doesn't exist so long as they can make jokes about where someone else lives.

[junar]

They also said "suburb", though.

While many congressional districts in the city proper are dominated by Democrats, the suburbs usually go to the Republicans.

[diafygi]

That's becoming less true, especially around Houston, where there were several district flips to blue in the last midterms, even with the heavy Republican gerrymandering.

https://www.kut.org/post/texas-suburbs-are-slipping-away-gop...

[205guy]

Texas Republicans have gerrymandered the heck out of Austin to make sure the blue stays contained.

[kortilla]

If you think Texans pretend Austin doesn’t exist, I doubt you’ve ever been to Texas. It’s very frequently lovingly referred to as a liberal armpit, shithole, etc.

Austins problems (super high housing costs, homelessness) are often trotted out as an example of Democratic policies being the source of California’s problems.

[reaperducer]

If you think Texans pretend Austin doesn’t exist, I doubt you’ve ever been to Texas.

I said no such thing. I said people who like to stereotype Texas as Republican like to pretend Austin doesn't exist.

As for visiting Texas, I lived there for many years.

[kortilla]

And California has some Republican districts. That doesn’t mean the people stereotyping California for being liberal are pretending they don’t exist.

Stereotypes are broad generalizations that are lucky if they are even accurate about the majority, let alone all of something.