TX-SEN 2024 megathread: The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer

[Ferguson97]

Something I haven't heard discussed on this forum very much is the brain drain from Texas. Many Democratic voters are going to leave the state in the next two years due to the state's abortion ban. This will make the state redder.

I have mixed feelings about this. While we need Democrats to live in red states in order to make them not-red states, if I lived in Texas I'd want to move to a blue state as well. I'm glad I don't have to make that decision.

You really think a mass amount of Democrats will leave the state over that?

I really don't know why so many on Atlas refuse to accept the idea that people do not like living under governments where the rights are stripped away, and will move if they can.

We see conservatives fleeing California and New York because they don't like the governments there. Why is it so ridiculous to suggest the opposite might be true for liberals in Texas and Florida?

Also it's not just a matter of Texan Democrats leaving the state, but about hypothetical future residents now categorically ruling out moving there because of those laws.

[Ferguson97]

If I understand correctly, the moment Texas turns democrat it's game over for the republicans right ?

This is undoubtedly true at the Presidential level.  Republicans have no reasonable paths to a victory without Texas.

In an election where Republicans lose Texas, yes, they have no path to victory. But Texas turning blue in one cycle wouldn't make it become permanently blue overnight, it would become a swing state (probably THE swing state).

[Ferguson97]

It boggles the mind that the Texas Democratic Party keeps nominating candidates who are more anti-gun than your average Boston Metro West politician.  Seriously, where's the logic?

Blue states already have gun control laws on the books for the most part, so there's no real reason for them to talk about it unless they're speaking to a national audience.