the large cities here all vote blue.
2012 for Obama:
* Travis County, home to Austin, the state's most liberal city. Romney trailed with just over 36 percent of the vote.
* Dallas County appears to be on its way to becoming almost as reliably Democrat. Obama took just over 57 percent of the vote to Romney's nearly 42 percent.
* Bexar County (San Antonio), Obama tallied nearly 52 percent to Romney's 47 percent. --> this is where Julian Castro served as mayor before being tapped for HUD
* Harris County - Around Houston, for example, Romney took 52 percent of the vote in Fort Bend County, 66 percent in Brazoria County and nearly 80 percent of the vote in Montgomery County. --> I am in Brazoria (worked on the campaign in 2008 - we lost to Hillary in Brazoria. Latina women especially loved Hillary).
Issues in Texas include gerrymandering and limiting access to vote. But the biggest issue with Texas is demographics. This is a very large state and it will take a couple more cycles for the old white folks to die out in numbers significant enough to put Texas in play ... the younger generations are majority latino/black/asian.
http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-demographics-by-age-group-2013-3
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