Dallas Co. went 2 to 1 for Biden last time I looked. But without flipping the seats needed in the State House to turn it blue, Rs will have total control in redistricting and will gerrymander the state even more. Only time and/or a concerted effort for blue voters to move over district lines will flip the state in Congressional and state house/senate seats in the next 2-3 cycles.

Hey, Dana, I hear that. I was in Utah for 30 years, and the bit of it we called home for the last 13 was a good place to be: majority Latinx, 20 different languages spoken at the high school, and the University of Utah is terrific by anyone's standards. But there's no separation of church and state on a practical level, and eventually you reach the point where the last vote you've got is the one you make with your feet.

For what it's worth, my sister moved her family out of Texas and back to Colorado a few months ago: Denver's housing market is stupid and she hates snow and wildfire season is nobody's favorite, but she's already a lot happier.

I'm nominally at work (from home, or rather from the teeny office space we're subletting from a local therapist who won't be having in-person sessions until spring at the earliest), but even our manager is only just barely pretending to do any actual work today. We're all just group chatting and stressing and meeping at each other.

even our manager is only just barely pretending to do any actual work today. We're all just group chatting and stressing and meeping at each other

I had to do a phone interview earlier and it was the most stressful 45 minutes of my entire day but now I can go back to looking at baby animal gifs and stress-eating nachos.

Am I logged in? Reckon so. I had to enter my name and password over and over.

I don’t want to keep up with today’s news.

I would really like to be cautiously optimistic but so far this election feels like everything that went wrong in 2000 and 2016 all at once. (Please do not reassure me with data. I am looking at the data. My blood pressure is unconvinced.)

No political discussions when working for government, it seems.

I am very weepy though.

I've lived in both red and blue parts of Texas and it seems to me that the divide between the two is just getting worse and worse. Neither side is trying to bridge the gap and, if they do, they get taken down by their own people: The title "There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos" seems to really define things these days.

My family's lived in Texas for something like 4 generations, but I think it's time to move on.

Yeah this is so stressful and depressing. I’m still cautiously hopeful but bummed that there’s no way we get the senate.

We’ve been home 10 seconds and ltc is throwing the most epic tantrum. I’m doing my best to avoid it and not feed it.