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by kstrauser 1949 days ago
It's more complicated than that when one party has outsized representation because of political tricks like gerrymandering. In the 2020 election, 90% as many people voted for Biden as for Trump. That's still a sizable gap but it's not like Texas is entirely single-party, and definitely not in the way that Wyoming is.

A huge portion of Texans are enduring an artificial catastrophe who did not vote for any of the politicians who caused it. Although I feel bad for everyone going through it, I feel especially bad for them.