Counties with over 100,000 residents that vote more than 60% for either party, 2020 (user search)
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President Punxsutawney Phil
TimTurner
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« on: August 17, 2023, 11:52:25 PM »

Challenged myself to recall the names of all these counties and county-equivalents from memory. This is what I got.

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108/123

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78/153
*=I had to check to get it right
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President Punxsutawney Phil
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« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2023, 07:01:55 PM »

If you took these counties out and left the remaining deep-red rural counties in, Texas would very narrowly vote blue by a 10,000 vote margin.

Yeah, even though the blue area includes the RGV, that's more than canceled out by suburban swings. Flipping Zapata but losing Tarrant and Williamson is a terrible trade for the GOP. Even if Trump becomes the first ever Republican to win Starr, there's a real chance Biden wins Collin and maybe even Denton.

People very much overstate the importance of the RGV. It has 1.7 mil people (by a liberal definition), compared to 1.9 mil for Colin and Denton alone.  Throw in Tarrant, Williamson, Hays, and Fort Bend, that's 1.7 mil compared to 5.7 mil, all trending towards Dems.
RGV looks huge on a map. That plays into this.
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