Dallas County remains only blue county in DFW, Austin gained 2 suburban counties

[NigerianNightmare]

Originally Posted by asubram3

Considering all of these urban counties with large populations went for Biden, how come Trump still won TX? Which counties gave him the lead?

Texas has one of the largest "small city populations" in America. People living in cities/metro areas between 50,000-500,000 is a lot of folks compared to other large states. Texas also has some of the reddest rural areas, like close to the majority of some of those counties went 70-90% for Trump.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by NigerianNightmare

Texas has one of the largest "small city populations" in America. People living in cities/metro areas between 50,000-500,000 is a lot of folks compared to other states.

The bigger difference is the suburbs, though. Houston and DFW as MSAs finally flipped blue this time around, albeit not by a lot. Both just over 50. Austin as a metro is the only that’s fairly deeply blue.

Even some red states like NC has much, much bluer suburbs in thwir big cities.

[NigerianNightmare]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

The bigger difference is the suburbs, though. Houston and DFW as MSAs finally flipped blue this time around, albeit not by a lot. Both just over 50. Austin as a metro is the only that’s fairly deeply blue.

Even some red states like NC has much, much bluer suburbs in thwir big cities.

Isn't San Antonio quantifiably as deep blue. While Comal and Guadalupe County balance it out a bit Bexar has like 78% of the metro population, and it went 60%+ for Biden.

I agree that our suburbs are redder, I do think it's a bit of a misnomer to compare with North Carolina, their cities are physically much smaller than ours even though they do have similar build (and I'm assuming similar laws). Most Texas suburbs of the big 5 cities are easily 15-30 miles outside of the city. Other states actually have separate distinct inner suburbs (5-15 miles out) while the majority of ours are either neighborhoods or wealthy enclaves. Technically Alief for example is a suburb in virtually every other state in this country based on historical development and laws, and Alief is super-liberal and wouldn't even be considered an inner suburb in a state like New Jersey, or Massachusetts. So really most places that are considered Texas suburbs are exurbs or the outer suburbs in most other states.