Originally Posted by jimmycooper

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.