Dallas: The New Austin?

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God Bless TEXAS (Houston especially)

Sorry, but I have a hard time believing anyone wrote (or said) that with a straight face.

It does NOT matter where you live. Big town, small town, liberal or not, North or South...If you are bored, it's because you are boring. There's no reason to feel ashamed due to what the population at large thinks when it doesn't match your own ideal. Just find a place that makes you happy and enjoy youself- no complaining about hipsters, hippies, why you think people shop at whole foods, definately no more telling people to "go back to ____", and what's with this 'tard idea that we need celebrities to feel cool?? You misunderstood that article LAST WEEK, stop bringing it up!

I just got back from Baltimore and Philly and it blew me away how liberal the people there were, having lived in the South all my conscious life. Austin is pretty conservative by comparison. I'm liking Austin less and less the more I learn about other areas of the world. Of course its better than a lot of other areas in tx.

The two reports are contradictory. Some cities feature on both the Top 100 Liberal and Top 100 Conservative.

Furthermore, the authors do not list their methodology.

The only thing that sucks about austin is the unemployed liberal hippies who want handouts. Go back to San Fran.

God Bless TEXAS (Houston especially) and God Bless George W Bush.

First, you need a list of celebrities that have lived here to make you feel cool. Now you need a survey to tell you how liberal and cool you are?

Rolandita: if you can't "have a good life" in Austin, there's something the matter with you, not with Austin.

if you read the report, it is somewhat nonsensical:

it was based on VOTING from '04...however, dallas county voted 50% bush and 49% kerry while travis county voted 56% Kerry. THe report is quite specious and really explains nothing, except where to find large segments of african-americans.

Unfortunately, there are many former Dallas residents living here now as well as a ton of right wing Californians.While the core of Austin is still attached at its roots, places like Cedar Park and Round Rock (that are now considered Austin) bring our appeal way down.

Also, I think we (the Liberals of Austin) have been essentailly gentrified to 78704...they're backing us into a corner! At least it's the best corner in town.

This phenom is well-explained in the report, which confirms that the African-American population typically votes democratic. Austin certainly has lotsa conservative white people, not so many African-Americans as our neighbor to the north. Also above us in the liberal category are Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi; New Orleans, Louisiana. Interesting reading.

Shanannigans!

austin is liberal for a southern city, for being in TX. I lived in Portland OR for 8 years, and Austin is not in the LEAST liberal compared to it.

Austin is hipsterville, where shopping at whole foods seems to be a form of spiritual practice. How weird can it be if there has to be a large-scale bumpersticker movement to exhort its citizens to remain weird?

I truly hope to see a different side to Austin, I packed up and moved here recently thinking it would be a place where a non-crunchy vegetarian treehuggin' chick could have a good life outside of the NW, but it hasn't worked out that way yet. I'm not giving up on it yet.

Whu-whu-whuuuut?

(In my best Uncle Arthur voice.)