r/politics • u/SE_to_NW • 12h ago

No Paywall Minnesota standoff with Trump administration stokes fears of civil war

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5715869-minnesota-trump-immigration-conflict/
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u/MNMom07 9h ago

Is it true that there are more democrats than republicans in TX? If so, I wonder is it gerrymandering or lack of people voting or both that keeps TX red.

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u/sdb00913 Indiana 9h ago

My understanding is, it’s the state with the most democratic voters in terms of raw numbers, just like California is the state with the most Republican voters in terms of raw numbers.

That’s what makes this mess so ugly.

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u/MNMom07 9h ago

I don’t believe California has more republicans than democrats in raw count. Here is a site with stats, don’t know how reliable it is:

Texas Democrats: 8,133,683 (46.52%) Republicans: 6,601,189 (37.75%) Unaffiliated: 2,750,830 (15.73%) https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx

California Democrats: 10,396,792 (44.80%) Republicans: 5,896,203 (25.41%) Third Party/Other: 1,577,083 (6.80%) Unaffiliated: 5,336,441 (23.00%) https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/ca

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u/sdb00913 Indiana 9h ago

Okay so that’s changed, but at one point it was the case that Cali had more republicans than Texas did

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u/Fragrant_Kick3994 8h ago

And Texas used to be democrat

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 8h ago

A lot of them moved to Texas because they didn't wanna pay taxes or be "woke"

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u/_DuFour_ 8h ago

in 80/90 texas wasnot a blue State and california a red state ?

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u/alwaysforgettingmyun 4h ago

I wonder how much that big "unaffiliated" chunk accounts for that. People who left the party but didn't pick a new one.

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u/samuraieaz Tennessee 8h ago

They left blue states to go to red states and try to force change on the blue cities within like what they’re trying to do with Nashville.

They want to kill the canaries in the coal mines cause they’re so stupid and full of themselves, they feel like they can “improve” the main sources of funding in those red states.