What a dumpster fire of a thread. How are people seriously making the argument that most people moving into Texas are conservatives? That is blatantly false when you look at the growing regions of the state: every county with a booming population has zoomed left over the past decade.
It's an exit poll so take it with a grain of salt, but the conservative expat narrative isn't totally baseless. If transplants are whiter and older than 'natives' and 'native' millennial whites aren't voting GOP at the ultra high rates of their boomer parents, it isn't that far out there to think transplants are a bit to the right of born and raised Texans.
And anyone with a brain capable of the smallest amount of logical reasoning can add two and two together and look at a damn map of the state and see the areas that haven’t grown (ie-highest to the largest amount of native Texans) have only gotten redder. Meanwhile look at the counties where people are moving to: Travis, Williamson, DFW, Bexar, Harris, Fort Bend) and it’s abundantly clear that the transplants are driving the majority of the change. That exit poll is BS
