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Idk there's a lot of Democrats in Texas, where they have art, craft breweries, and big yards. Naw, it's politicians that are sorting the people into just Republican or Democratic zones; changing the shape of the zones to cover where their people are such that it comes out that there are more Republican zones, thus making it appear like states are more "red" than they really are. When zones are picked by reasonable boundaries, then the Republicans say "see, Democrats are unfairly picking their voters, too!"
In other words, Texas is more blue than it sometimes appears, and if people would vote in greater numbers, this version of Republican would be quickly eliminated in many more places.
Indeed, but the institutional hurdles (requiring IDs and moving/closing polling sites, to call out just a couple) placed by Republicans make that "if people would vote in greater numbers" not as easy as stated.