Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 31 2019 08:20am)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_County,_Texas#Government_and_politicsUS Congress representatives from Houston: 4 R, 4 D.
Texas House of representatives from Houson: 9 R, 15 D.
So yes, the "it was an overwhelmingly Democratic area"-excuse doesnt count this time, but pretending like Houston was a Republican-leaning area just because it is located inside R-leaning Texas is cleraly nonsense.
You're mistaken. DC is always called out for being one of the most left leaning places. Not quite Seattle area or Portland, but incredibly left leaning. so when Trump was booed there people said "oh well sure, it's a democrat haven. of course people felt they could boo the president there and it would go over fine."
Is Houston Republican leaning? no. it's a mixed bag close to 50-50 by demographics. and yet people felt completely safe and justified booing the president of the United States there.
the point of my post wasn't that Houston was republican (or that republicans are booing Trump), it was that the democratic leaning nature of DC wasn't the only thing at play in Trump being booed there. If he got booed in Texas than my guess is he'll get booed everywhere.
this shouldnt come as a shock to anyone, he's far and away the most divisive president in the modern era. and about 50% of the USA disapproves of him. which means when he shows up 50% of any given crowd more or less don't like him.
my post was directed at people who said Trump only got booed because it was DC, clearly Texas isn't DC with it's HIGH % of leftist voters.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Oct 31 2019 07:40am