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Tarrant Turning Blue?


by: Todd Hill

Thu Mar 29, 2007 at 08:51 AM CDT


Is Tarrant County turning blue because of……GASP……California?  Well, according to a migration analysis, Tarrant County was the recipient of a number of migrants tired of the high taxes and high dollar living of California, and instead opted for the laid back, and generally cheaper living that Tarrant County offered. 

Now, I have no doubt in my mind that the collective work many activists are doing here in Tarrant County is leading to a much brighter, and certainly more blue future here, but I honestly had no idea that California would contribute to that effort.  We'll take what we can get though.

Logic tells me that since California is as blue as Texas is red, these new Texans are very likely Democratic voters.  Sounds like a golden opportunity to speed up the process of turning Tarrant County Democratic again if we target voter registration efforts towards these new migrants.  Lets get to work! 

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I think it kind of depends (0.00 / 0)
If they're coming here to escape the high cost of living in Cali..then possibly they're Democrats. But the ones leaving Cali to escape the high taxes...them I wouldn't be so sure about. There are some seriously nutty anti-taxers out in Cali. If the entirety of Orange County is headed east...that would not be a good thing for Tarrant County.

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Orange County is the #1 Republican county in the country.  Tarrant County is #2.

That said, if these individuals are looking to escape high taxes and such because of affordability, then good chance they are Democrats. 

Only one way to find out though, knock on their door and see.

Todd

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi


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If they're coming to TX to escape taxes (0.00 / 0)
they're in for a shock. While we have no state income tax, we have some of the highest property and sales taxes in the country

Prisoner of hope.

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maybe (0.00 / 0)
We have 2 former California residents who moved because their job forced them to. They now live in Highland Village in Denton County and are Democrats.

They also told me that the property tax is higher here, so they actually thought that California was better on taxation.

So your summation is probably too general to make to assume they're all liberals.

www.stonewalldemocratsofdentoncounty.org




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