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Originally Posted by dyna mo
when i first moved there in 1998, i had a big ole harley. i had noticed the guy across the street had one so one day i figured i'd walk over there and see about riding, as i was walking over, he was walking to his garage, opened the garage door and hanging on the back wall of the garage was a HUGE confederate flag. i just turned right around and didn't look back. Nevertheless, over the next several years I logged 10000s of miles riding around that area, meeting/not-meeting people, eating great food, stepping in dog shit, whateve, many varied experiences, but i just don't remember anything liberal as a current or theme or tone there. and I'm from the South, my parents are from the deep South. I was raised in Pasadena, so anything liberal is noticeable to me and even more so then.
i'm not saying you are wrong, but i am saying in my experience i didn't find Austin liberal .
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No, you're right. There are a lot of people like that in Austin. But the city is still liberal relative to the rest of Texas. For instance, UT always gets compared to Texas A&M. Relative to A&M, UT is very liberal just as Austin is very liberal when compared to college station. But when you compare UT to like Berkeley or NYU, it seems relatively conservative in comparison.
Then when you consider that pretty much the entire area in pink on this map is considered to be the Texas bible belt (ie, dry counties etc.), Austin seems even more liberal.
Top industry in Austin is tech. Top industries in both Houston and, at least historically,in Dallas have been oil and gas.
Also, being considered a liberal in Texas is a lot different than being considered a liberal in like Boston, NYC, LA, SF, etc. For instance, I consider myself to be a moderate democrat. In Texas, I'm considered to be very liberal yet here in NYC, I'm practically a Republican and as a matter of fact I actually did vote for Bloomberg 3 times.