{"id":7453,"date":"2024-05-28T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=7453"},"modified":"2024-05-28T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T16:57:18","slug":"is-texas-about-to-turn-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/is-texas-about-to-turn-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Texas about to Turn Blue?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in the early 2000&#8217;s I took a business trip to Dallas, Texas, and while the other AT&amp;T travelers on that trip were enjoying free happy hour at the hotel I was off exploring Dallas. And I was struck by how the demographics of Dallas reminded me a lot of Sacramento, California. Seeing how Texas had four major urban areas, I could see that it wouldn&#8217;t be long before it became just like California with voting dominated by urban areas. And in the current climate of blue states and urban areas not enforcing the law, they&#8217;re flooding the rest of the country with people fleeing their mismanagement, looking for a safe and better place to live. And Nick&#8217;s coverage of the major suburban areas rapidly growing in Texas and where people are coming from paints a picture of how Texas&#8217; change to a blue state could happen rather quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Found The Last Piece Of The American Dream. It&#039;s In Texas.\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pAemvxVTPVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early 2000&#8217;s I took a business trip to Dallas, Texas, and while the other AT&amp;T travelers on that trip were enjoying free happy hour at the hotel I was off exploring Dallas. And I was struck by how the demographics of Dallas reminded me a lot of Sacramento, California. Seeing how Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7454,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions\/7454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}