Is Texas red, blue, or purple?

[assclown]

I find Texas to be an interesting state in terms of politcs. It's always described as some evil scary christan nationalist state, but from what i've seen, alot of progressives are from here and every election cycle everyone speculates if it will turn blue or not. I personally feel like Texas is more of a purple state.

 

[gagabobo1997]

red but moving towards purple

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Same as any state, blue cities and red countryside.

Most recent election in the Dallas-Fort Worth area was a combination of unusual circumstances and well-placed funding, which is usually what close calls (or Democrat wins) come down to.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Trump won every ethnicity except BlaX in 2024: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas#Exit_poll_data

LatinX have voted more Republican over the years. If that isn't reversed, you don't get a purple Texas.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Yellow is what they are.

spit

 

[Jesse Nicholas Radin]

Purple but the Democrats will pick an extreme liberal and lose worse than they did

 

[Chilson]

Most of the country is red, its why blue needs to "fortify" their elections. Texas "going purple" is just the fortification narrative to pre-justify the fix.

 

[Jesse Nicholas Radin]

Most of the country is red, its why blue needs to "fortify" their elections. Texas "going purple" is just the fortification narrative to pre-justify the fix.

The map with a bunch of red places not considering population density?

 

[Taser Confetti]

Red. The only democrat strongholds are Dallas (niggers), Houston (niggers) and Austin (faggots and transplants). Tx Democrats are either picked at the local level by groids who never rise another tier or are Austin Redditors that get rejected by the rest of the state.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Red.

The real problem in Texas is that the Republican party has a serious issue with democrats pretending to be republicans to get elected and then partnering with Dems to ensure the House Speaker is a piss ant RINO which makes actually passing Republican platform items harder.

It's one of the reasons the Republican party in the state has been in a legal battle to close their primary.

 

[Retrodogkiller]

I would've said red but musk and rogan bringing all the california transplants with them makes me think it'll end up purple in the near future.

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

It's the reddest purple state. Even in 2026 when the Democrats have the most favorable odds they've had since the Obama era, it's still only like 1:2 odds of a blue upset.

 

[dick brain]

Same as any state, blue cities and red countryside.

Most of the country is red, its why blue needs to "fortify" their elections. Texas "going purple" is just the fortification narrative to pre-justify the fix.

Correct.

The concept of red and blue states is just gerrymandering, it only matters in the context of elections. In the real world the heuristic is simple, weak people cower together. If you want to be around liberals, wait for sunset and move towards the light pollution; if you want to be around conservatives, move away from it.

 

[Wilson The Ball]

It's Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Purple

 

[Taser Confetti]

The concept of red and blue states is just gerrymandering, it only matters in the context of elections. In the real world the heuristic is simple, weak people cower together. If you want to be around liberals, wait for sunset and move towards the light pollution; if you want to be around conservatives, move away from it.

Your statement’s definitely true for Colorado. Once you get outside of the Denver metro the state’s full of completely normal people.

The problem is conservatives have fetishized fleeing to the middle of nowhere and working in trades instead of going to college and then wonder why they have no institutional power.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Well, the problem is that Texas has a myriad of soil types, so it could be anything on the natural soil range scale.

 

[ZsaZsaBinks]

Magenta

 

[Drip Torch]

Blue, as in bluebonnets!

 

[Tennessee Trash]

LatinX have voted more Republican over the years. If that isn't reversed, you don't get a purple Texas.

Be careful with this. You've only really had one election cycle where this has been true, and many of the 'Latins' counted are more like the Ted Cruz or Brandon Herrera types not really your stereotypical 'Hispanic'. Trump had the unique ability to build a working class coalition among many groups, including minorities, which other republicans have utterly failed to replicate. As Trump is seen more as part of the political class I wonder how much this effect will last. You can look an midterm and down-ballot votes to see this, where Latinos would actually vote for Trump but still vote Dem down ballot everywhere else. Look at Arizona and Nevada, where Trump won pretty easily but Dems still won down ballot (Possible fraud notwithstanding, at this point you should just assume it is part and parcel anyways.) I suspect Texas is going to go the way of Georgia in the not-too-distant future, unless Republicans get a lot more effective real quick.

 

[Sooty Soot]

Brown, soon-to-become a part of India.