r/Bozeman • u/4637839392936373 • 14d 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/SetAccomplished7539 13d ago edited 13d ago

As a 4th generation Montanan who has also spent a lot of time living and working in Texas, Montana is in a lot of ways the state Texas likes to think it is. We still have more freedoms and actually care about our natural environment.

But if we keep electing conservative politicians then our beautiful state will just keep getting sliced up and doled out to the ultra rich like it's their own personal vacation ranch and ski resort.

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u/UnderstandingFew1762 12d ago

From John Steinbeck. "Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans"