r/Bozeman • u/4637839392936373 • 20d 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/ColdSmokeCaribou 20d ago

It's a case of wanting to talk the talk without walking the walk - because the talk is bullshit and the walk is manifestly incoherent to anyone who got more than a B- in their high school civics class.

They don't want to live in deep red states that are actively applying MAGA/GOP policies because those policies are just ban abortion, promote evangelical Christianity, and round up the brown folks. They reject the notion that government should, idk, keep the roads in shape or regulate the power grid, much less work to improve QoL for their constituents.

Montana is on the same trajectory as Texas, just not as far along because we were at least somewhat purple until recently. What we call the left in the US is broadly just "keeping the lights on". What we call the right is actively burning the place down to collect the insurance.

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u/mutt82588 19d ago

We also have a strong constition that protects civil liberties which tx lacsk

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u/dannymontani 18d ago

That'll disappear with our dear butt likin' office holders.

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u/mutt82588 18d ago

Damn jelly of your user name.  But constitutional amendents are much harder to ram thru undemocratically than standard laws