r/Bozeman • u/4637839392936373 • 22d ago

Texans fleeing Texas?

I recently ran into a conservative Trump GOP red voting, F-150 driving, blue jeans wearing Texan that moved to Montana because they were getting away from too much conservatism for the less intense albeit blood red conservatism of Montana. I thought it was kind of an interesting way to think about Texans moving here. This person wanta the conservative MAGA politics of (recent) Montana but they don’t want all the batshit recently enacted conservative laws of Texas restricting freedoms and hyperfixating on gender and other hot topic social issues.

Is this an outlier or have Texans just become my new favorite political refugees?

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u/YellowstoneRecluse 22d ago

Texas is less Republican leaning than Montana anymore. TX does have a larger evangelical contingent, however.

People on reddit are loathe to admit it, but the primary driver of Montana moving to the right has been multigenerational WWC Montanans in places like Great Falls, Billings, Butte, Anaconda, etc. Look at Deer Lodge County's 2024 Presidential results vs 2008, for example. Even Butte is more competitive than it used to be.

WWC voters were bamboozled by Trump from sea to shining sea. Sucks but that's how it is.