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Scrabler
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Mobile, AL
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 Posted: 11/09/04 - 18:36 Post subject:
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| Rennol wrote: | | Scrabler wrote: | 
Hahaha someone doesn't look happy. |
looks like ur parents or some other AL residents |
They don't look like any Southerner from around here.
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sinrakin
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 7044
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Posted: 11/09/04 - 22:29 Post subject:
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| Scrabler wrote: | | Rennol wrote: | | Scrabler wrote: |
Hahaha someone doesn't look happy. |
looks like ur parents or some other AL residents |
They don't look like any Southerner from around here. |
He looks a little like Clint Eastwood on a bad day.
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lotek
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 1598
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Posted: 11/10/04 - 00:14 Post subject:
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if you look at the map colored by county, practically all of texas is red, with one blue spot in the middle, travis county (aka austin).
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quotison
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 13 Oct 2002
Posts: 1594
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Posted: 11/10/04 - 00:45 Post subject:
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| lotek wrote: | | if you look at the map colored by county, practically all of texas is red, with one blue spot in the middle, travis county (aka austin). |
Don't Democrats do well in South Texas as well?
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Thuphir
Luke Warm
Joined: 15 Oct 2002
Posts: 206
Location: Baton Rouge
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Posted: 11/10/04 - 00:52 Post subject:
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Yeah they cleaned up from like Brownsville diagonally up to San Antonio and over to Eagle Pass or so.
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Conqueso
Luke Warm
Joined: 25 Jun 2003
Posts: 388
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Posted: 11/10/04 - 03:04 Post subject:
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Heh, I wouldn't say "cleaned up". Although the valley is heavily Hispanic, the Texas Hispanic vote has been shifting towards Republican over the last few elections and no longer follows party lines. I pulled the following from the Houston Chronicle, but it is based on exit polling. (I would take it with a grain of salt.) However, the voting percentages by county (counties that voted for Kerry starting north and going south) do paint a similar picture to what the exit polls suggest.
| Quote: | Among the dozens of numbers produced by the national exit poll, perhaps none were more surprising than the Latino totals for Texas. Bush, the poll concluded, earned 59 percent of their votes, a 16 percent jump from the same poll's 2000 number.
Latino-voting experts agree Bush did better in their communities than he did in 2000. In the lower Rio Grande Valley, for instance, Kerry won Hidalgo County 55 percent to 45 percent and lost narrowly in Cameron County. Both have Hispanic populations exceeding 80 percent. |
Texas Total 61.20% 38.27% (Bush, Kerry)
Travis 42.24% 56.31% 147,625 196,780 (Austin)
Williamson 65.16% 33.72% 83,079 42,986 (some Austin "suburbs" for comparison)
El Paso 43.28% 56.22% 73,046 94,879 (El Paso)
Presidio 37.95% 61.52% 713 1,156
Zavala 24.92% 74.79% 777 2,332
Maverick 40.19% 59.40% 4,025 5,948 (Eagle Pass)
Dimmit 33.31% 66.32% 1,188 2,365
La Salle 44.37% 55.14% 989 1,229
Webb 42.74% 56.97% 17,733 23,636 (Laredo)
Duval 28.35% 71.28% 1,160 2,916
Jim Wells 34.51% 65.15% 712 1,344
Zapata 42.42% 57.37% 1,228 1,661
Jim Hogg 34.51% 65.15% 712 1,344
Brooks 31.61% 68.16% 844 1,820
Kenedy 48.52% 50.30% 82 85
Starr 26.09% 73.60% 2,552 7,199 (Rio Grande City)
Hidalgo 44.79% 54.89% 51,438 63,035 (McAllen)
Cameron 50.38% 49.21% 34,689 33,887 (Brownsville)
The more populated counties had a lot smaller gap between candidates than the least populated. Cameron county (at the tip) actually voted for Bush but I think is declared as a pro-Kerry county on the maps. As for Travis county (Austin), the demographics have also been slowly shifting towards a more conservative voting bloc. I believe this is mainly due to the growth in the suburbs and rising land values in central Austin. The trend of these counties will probably continue to be Democrat for state positions and a gradual shift towards Republican for national positions. State candidates for either party still somewhat vary in political leanings and are not always clearly defined as "liberal" or "conservative". It would be interesting to compare county-by-county to the 2000 election but I really do not want to waste more time to dig it up.
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Abi
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 11 Aug 2003
Posts: 1747
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Posted: 11/10/04 - 04:42 Post subject:
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No actually they look like people from Here .. one of the most liberal places in Cali ... fitting..
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ATM Banana
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 02 Jan 2003
Posts: 8575
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Posted: 11/10/04 - 04:49 Post subject:
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haha, good one.
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