Back in 2020 I said that Georgia and Texas are not Red States. The election is highlighting something that people are not accurately absorbing. This outline might help.
When we traditionally think about Red states or Blue states we think about Red being republican, conservative or nationalist, and we think of Blue as being democrat, progressive or socialist. However, that is not the accurate prism, and it never was.
What determines the political ideology of the state is the financial livelihood of the power centers, powerful people that control the political outcomes. The key words there are “financial livelihoods.” It is the money within the power center that determines the ideology.
The political ideology of Illinois, Minnesota and New York directly comes from how the power interests gain their affluence. What is the driving element of the money within the state that funds the powerful people, and how is that money made? Those are the questions that determine the politics – Red or Blue it matters not. The critical question is where does the wealth of the powerful come from?
When an outside influence starts to challenge the wealth of the powerful, it is the retention of that finance that determines the political outlook. Let me give you examples.
For the powerful interests in California, New York, Illinois and recently -more specifically and visibly- Minnesota, you will notice the power brokers money is made from corruption of government finance. Take away the access of powerful interests to federal government money, eliminate corruption and you are hitting directly at the center of power.
Enforce lawfulness, target corruption and take away the ability to gain wealth from theft of government money and the powerful political interests who control political power lose wealth. The entire system is based on wealthy people engaged in fraud and corruption to remain wealthy. That dynamic applies to California, Illinois, New York and Minnesota.
However, the same dynamic, albeit under a different auspice, applies to Texas.
Texas industry, and more specifically the billionaires who live in Texas, control the industry and control the political power centers, rely on illegal aliens to achieve their wealth status. Start addressing the illegal immigration issue and you start threatening the wealth that underpins the powerful people who control political outcomes.
Because Texas billionaires rely on the industry of illegal aliens, enforcing immigration laws is against their interests. Deporting illegal aliens becomes a threat to the Texas wealth system in the same way that stopping fraud is a threat to the wealth system in NY, IL, CA and MN.
The fastest way to expose a political ruse is to target the wealth of the powerful interests behind it.
If enforcing lawful behavior targets that wealth system, the powerful interests will change perspectives and decry the enforcement of lawful behavior. That’s the truth at the core of every state political construct.
Why was/is Florida somewhat immune in 2026?
Well, because the wealth of the powerful people in Florida politics is tied to the U.S. stock market. Positive gains in banking, finance, Big Tech and asset management expanded wealth portfolios. The FL power interests are older people, with deep and significant financial holdings. They are no longer dependent on govt fraud, stealing govt money, or industrial use of illegal alien labor at a rate that creates risk.
If you want to turn Florida blue, collapse the stock market and destroy the portfolios of the wealthy people who control political perspectives in Florida. The FL power interests don’t steal money, but they benefit from govt bailouts of failed financial enterprises. The wealth of that set of power interests is not connected the same way.
TX and GA are directly reliant on illegal alien activity for their affluence. Target immigration and get political opposition. CA, MN, IL and NY are directly reliant on govt fraud for their affluence. Target fraud and get political opposition.
The correct prism to determine “Red” or “Blue” is not to look at surface ideology (conservative of socialist), but rather to look at what creates the wealth of the powerful people who control politics and thereby control the ideology.
That’s where you will quickly determine the freedom continuum doesn’t balance on political perspectives, it balances on the fulcrum of money. If you touch or move the money you tilt the balance of power.
Cue the audio visual example:
South Texas Builders Association Vice Chair Benny Melendez to White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: “If you want to continue harassing our communities…These same communities you’re now harassing will make sure you lose the White House.” https://t.co/AwAwBY8KGj
— CSPAN (@cspan) November 11, 2026
And from the likes of Meathead Hannity:
Vote HARDER!
Uh, no. We are not fighting with votes; that game was ended early in the last century. We are fighting ideology, indoctrination, and tyranny and those enemies are not resisted by quaint votes. Voting is for homogeneous populations to decide on details of social order already established. This is not that.
Remember the three boxes, children, and make most use of the first.
Like Elon(or somebody close) said last year(paraphrased): “If we shut down all of the fraud(NGOs) the world economy would collapse.”
That is pretty frightening.
When folks think of TX Industry … they think illegals and some legal immigrants in: farming, construction, oil industry, services of all types and agriculture.
However, the fasted growing immigrant communities in TX are ASIAN … especially Indian, Chinese and Pakistani. Check the demographic changes around the expanding suburban tech centers near: Dallas, Austin, Houston and San Antonio. Also, check the expanding demographics of the medical professional community around TX Population Centers.
The Indians especially have aligned themselves with the democrat “Turn TX Blue Projects”.
The one common denominator of the various immigrant community is that they come from and more readily accept the political messaging associated with Socialism and being ignorant of all the broken promises as well as form of (totalitarian) government that comes with it … they are also conditioned to more readily accept MSM stories.
The immigrants are being brought into the US to replace “the evil whites” across the social spectrum … middle to lower class … professional to unskilled. In total a highly controllable and malleable population.
One other key point … up to about 2020 .. Hispanics of mixed parentage as well as among long time generational residency were counted as “White”. Then came the “White NOT Hispanic” category … the Hispanics of all types and mixes of genetic parentage were successfully cleaved away into a singularly very large mixed racial demographic .. a major focus group promised lots of stuff if they cooperate..
Brilliant perspective Sundance. Thank you very much!
This clearly explains Abbott’s political philosophy of walking loudly and carrying a little stick.