Harris County, TX - Presidential results precinct map link

[freepcrusher]

what's with the democratic pocket in far western Harris county?

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The "White Flight havens" on Houston's periphery have always creeped me out. I tend to think if you want to have 90%+ of your neighbors be non-Hispanic whites, you need to find somewhere other than Houston to live (Utah or Minnesota, perhaps). I'm occasionally in Cypress visiting family friends who are a Santorum-Palin GOP's wet dream: wife never attended college, they go to an evangelical church twice a week, husband collects bumper stickers that are the Right's equivalent of snark ("Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot"). And the cookie cutter houses around the cul de sac are full of cookie cutter neighbors; an F-150 and an Expedition in every driveway (preferably with a Browning deer or Semper Fi sticker) and Fox News on every plasma TV.

what's the SES of the area like? The way you're describing them, I'm surprised they can afford to live in that area.

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also one of my questions is this: if you live in Tomball or Cyfair and you are sort of a Mark Kirk republican, what party do you run as if you want to run for office (congress or state lege)

[freepcrusher]

also one of my questions is this: if you live in Tomball or Cyfair and you are sort of a Mark Kirk republican, what party do you run as if you want to run for office (congress or state lege)

You don't. A moderate Republican couldn't get elected in this area before 2010, let alone in the current Republican primary climate. This is the part of Harris County that keeps sending Debbie Riddle - famous for her illegal immigrant and terror baby conspiracy rants on CNN alongside Louie Gohmert - to the State House. She got primaried last year by a man who thought she wasn't conservative enough.

so do you run as a dem instead?