I guess what I am saying is your state is more liberal in general.
Wow. Don't believe everything you think you read. Romney won Texas with nearly 60% of the vote - and won all but 26 out of 254 counties . The larger metro areas - Dallas, Houston, San Antone, Austin, El Paso - and the western border counties are are pinko as can be. However, the liberal influence is strictly confined to within City limits - and I could give two burps and a fart for what the City of Houston does to and/or for it's residents. Harris County (where Houston is located) is as red as all get out - Obama did win the county, but by .03% of the vote - it was a statistical dead heat. Just north of Harris County is Montgomery County (where I live) and we didn't even have Democrats on the ballot other than in the national and state wide races. The county due north of Dallas County (Collin County) doesn't even have a Democratic party in the county. Austin and Travis County are the blue pimple in the center of the state, and the border counties do as their patron tells them, but that's about it.
And don't even go there with Shelia Jackson Lee. The local news people have stopped covering her at all unless she fucks something up royally, and then they mock her. Y'all have Alvin Holmes and Roy Moore. Everyone is cursed with someone.
Granted, dallas and I are on a bit of a high horse about being in Texas, and that is tiresome for others. I get that, and I am sorry for repeating myself. However, with the direction this country is headed, we cannot help but feel a bit relieved about living in a bastion of conservatism. And most of y'all are still always welcome.
Castro may be the next "Obama" but I wouldn't mark him down as the anti-Rubio just yet.