[reaperducer]

tech workforce is generally liberal or are at least centrist moderate. Texas is not an ideal home for most of them.

That stereotype is about a decade out of date.

Texas is very much like New York, California, Washington, Nevada, Oregon, and most other American states: Blue large cities surrounded by red elsewhere.

[hellisothers]

Except all those states you listed are blueish (including purplish or very blue) where Texas is deep red.

[reaperducer]

The list was examples, and not exhaustive. It's also true in Arizona, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and probably a bunch of other states that I'm less familiar with.

My point stands, though. The Texas thing is still a stereotype, and still at least a decade out of date.

[yumraj]

> The Texas thing is still a stereotype

Look into the latest abortion law, and voting law charges and statements from Texan politicians and …

[reaperducer]

Maybe Texas should be more like California, which banned same-sex marriage repeatedly through both popular votes of the public (Proposition 8) and its legislature (Proposition 22).

People in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses.

[dasKrokodil]

...book banning/burning