Talkin' about Beto with my granddaughter, now living in Austin. I am a 3rd generation Texan and

[CTyankee]

swore I'd never go back after my mother died.

Now my granddaughter, born and raised in the Boston suburbs, is starting the next chapter of her young life, and she's a strongly liberal Democrat. She loves my Texas roots. Beto was born in El Paso; my mother was born in El Paso.

May the circle be unbroken.

[Javaman]

1. If Beto wins, she should move here

If he doesn’t, she should avoid Texas like the plague

If the repukes win, they will exact retribution on the blue counties mark my words

[CTyankee]

2. She knows very well what is going on politically. Her father is a political speechwriter for Dems in

MA.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Texas will turn blue

It is only a matter of time according to the demographic trends

[ananda]

4. Austin is a very blue city.

I love it here.

[Skittles]

7. when I received military orders for Austin

my supervisor said: there's Texas, and then there's Austin.....

[Genki Hikari]

9. Total bigoted lie.

All of the major cities are blue.

Only someone who's never been to any of the real cities in Texas could say something so ignorant and hateful.

[Skittles]

10. sheesh

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I think the meaning was that Austin is a special place, he was a Dem who graduated from UT

FYI I lived in Austin for seventeen years. I've lived in a few Texas cities and Austin had a unique feel to it back then....alas, last time I visited it felt like a mini-Dallas.

[ShazzieB]

14. Ignorant and hateful? That seems a bit harsh.

The conversation was about Austin. Not about any other other Texas city, or about Texas cities in general. Nobody badmouthed any Texas city, and there was no malice involved. The poster wax speaking about Austin, which they evidently have knowledge of. No other city came up.

As for ignorance, well, so what? Not knowing everything about everything is not a crime. That poster spoke of something they did know. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[Skittles]

17. thank you ShazzieB

[ananda]

11. Keep Austin weird.

...

[Skittles]

12. alas

last time I visited, it no longer felt special, it felt like a mini-Dallas

[dalton99a]

16. The weirdness died with Leslie

replaced by a highrise infestation, ostentatious consumerism, and homeless tents

And obnoxious shit-for-brains drivers

[Genki Hikari]

8. So are all the major cities

Austin isn't special in that regard.

[Skittles]

13. she never said it was

n/t

[ShazzieB]

15. So what?

The conversation was about Austin.

[LymphocyteLover]

5. Who is living in Austin? You or your granddaughter?

[CTyankee]

6. My granddaughter. I live in deep blue New Haven, CT

[LymphocyteLover]

18. Thanks-- that's what I thought initially then I read it again and wasn't sure

Anyway, I hope she casts a winning vote for Beto! That would be so great if he won!

[CTyankee]

19. Oh, she will! She is a strong Democrat and mercifully has a strong group of friends there who are

and politically savvy as she is!