On: San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

[murph-almighty]

I'm really curious about the macro political effects too- if a surge of CA-based liberal leaning tech workers move to Texas, is Texas purple?

[samfisher83 → murph-almighty]

If you look at the 4 big cities of Texas they are all blue. Its just surrounded by a sea of red.

[seattletech → samfisher83]

Hence the reliance on gerrymandering to maintain majorities. Look at the congressional districts around Austin

[v77 → murph-almighty]

This has already happened in Nevada and now Arizona.

[dylan604 → murph-almighty]

The 2020 election will tell. Up to now, it has definitely not been purple.

[mywittyname → dylan604]

H. Clinton did relatively well in Texas -- it's one of the few states where she out-performed Obama. Still, a 800,000 vote gap is much too large too close in only four years.