Is Dallas County lost for the GOP?

[Torie]

Metro areas, particularly those growing dynamically, spread out past the original host county lines, and since the fringes tend to be far more Pub than the core, inevitably the core becomes more Dem. More interesting is to look for trends in metro areas as a whole. For example, the Louisville metro area as a whole has become more Dem, even when factoring in the counties appended to Jefferson County. The Twin Cities metro area does not appear to have become more Dem is my guess. The Bay area, the LA area, and the San Diego area (less so), have become dramatically more Dem, in part, but only in part, to becoming less white. Almost everything north of SC on the east cost appears to me to have become more Dem when it comes to metro areas (other than Pittsburg).

As to the Dallas metro area, I suspect, without knowing, that overall from a political perspective, it has been rather static.