Here’s the thing - people like what they like. There are some people here on this BBS who live in texas, not because they are right wingers, but because for whatever reason they like living there… We all have different ideas about what constitutes a great place to live and want different things out of life. And we all probably have differences of opinions on what kind of beer is good. 
Like Texas, dislike Texas as a place to live - that’s all personal preference…
The PROBLEM right now, is how the Texas GOP has accrued power to itself, gerrymandered an increasingly diverse state to maintain that power. But as the example of my own state (GA) shows, the problem isn’t hopeless. I was constantly being told that there was no way we could get democrats elected to state level offices, and now we have 2 Democratic senators. It’s not like southern states don’t have our own progressive and even radical traditions/histories - we do.
Rather than just dismissing entire states wholesale, we should be looking what why the far right is getting entrenched in some places and seeing what we can do to undo that damage. This is a national problem, because the goal is a national take over. Hell, there is an article up now on the BBS about how they have plans to take the whole country…
So maybe it’s more productive to focus on the political problems of these states than to just write them off?
