Texas is planning to make a huge public investment in space

"Further investment will cement Texas as the preeminent location for innovation."

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[fcrary]

I know you're, like, an obvious idiot troll, but this is really a pet peeve of mine: there is no "Democrat Party".

True, but "democratic" is an adjective not a noun.
You can say "Democratic Party" but saying "I am a Democratic" is grammatically incorrect.

 

[fcrary]

Though I have no 'real world' experience to describe how it would be, history has stated that Texas has flipped from Democrat to Republican and back several times (twice to each?) in its history. Whether the state has always been ultra-Conservative or not, I cannot say. Likewise, (until recently?) many efforts and expenditures one would normally task as a State-necessary item has been funded by corporations, businesses, and such-- to include, interestingly, certain taxes. Alas, how true that is today I am unsure.

Long story made short, Texas has been surprisingly malleable in terms of its politics. Nothing is set in concrete here.

...gets too hot. The mix won't stay set.

You need to be careful about the history. Texas has gone from being a Democratic to a Republican state and back a few times. But those parties have also flipped back and forth quite a bit in the past hundred and fifty years or so. When it was formed in 1858, the Republican party was the liberal, anti-slavery party. The Democratic party was the conservative one. And that changed in terms of economic policy in the early twentieth century, and in terms of social policy in the mid to late twentieth century.

 

[fcrary]

As much as I might like to agree with you, I think it was setup that way because Disney owned most if not all of the property, habitable, in a county. As they would be paying all the taxes and requiring all the maintenance it was decided that they would govern it themselves. Simplified structure. I know it was something similar to this at least...

I've heard of similar things in California and Texas. If the company puts in some apartment buildings and offers subsidized rent for employees, they can get a sufficient population to become an incorporated "town". With an on-site manager elected as mayor.