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The replies to this are a free million dollar Move Your Tech Company To Texas ad campaign
I say to hell with those fleeing Silicon Valley techbros, ruining Texas with all their 6 figure jobs
I hate to break it to you, but the reason Austin is lefty has little to do with supposedly commie Silicon Valley transplants. 90% of people move here to escape other parts of Texas, not California.
Austin - Texas = Lansing, Michigan
Texas - Austin = Oklahoma
At the expense of pissing off just about everyone:

Austin benefits greatly from being in Texas, and Texas benefits greatly by having Austin.
The "now" was probably unnecessary
And "Texas is turning blue" is overhyped, inasmuch as Trump's tariff-them-back-to-the-stone-age message doesn't sell as well in an energy & tech state as it does in the Rust Belt
Surprisingly, "I will wage an all-out, unrelenting trade war until Youngstown Ohio gets back its slag smelting jobs" isn't the surefire Texas vote-getter you might think
What can I say? I enjoy the company of clinically insane people
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