Where does support for Texas independence come from?

From every part of Texas, the big cities included. Support is broad enough that a statewide vote does not live or die by any one region.

The polling crosses the whole state

Surveys have put support for independence around 60 percent statewide, with about two-thirds of Texans wanting the chance to vote on it. You do not reach a number like that in rural counties alone. Support on that scale includes millions of people in and around Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin.

Cities are not monoliths

The major metros contain millions of conservatives, independents, small-business owners, working families, and first-generation Texans who are exhausted by Washington. A city that leans one way in a partisan election does not vote as a single block on whether Texans should govern themselves. Independence is not a normal left-right vote, and it will not break down along normal left-right maps.

Independence is not a partisan transaction

The case for self-government is that decisions about Texas should be made in Texas, by Texans, close to the people they affect. That lands in a Houston suburb as well as in the Panhandle, because property taxes, the border, the cost of living, and a distant federal government are Texan concerns, felt hardest in the metros where most Texans live.

A statewide vote is won statewide

A referendum is decided by a simple majority of everyone who votes, everywhere. The job is to make the case to every Texan, in every county and every city, the way any winning statewide campaign does. With support already polling well above the line, the path runs through turning out the majority that already exists, in the cities included.

The bottom line

The big cities are full of Texans, and Texans, by a clear majority, want the right to decide this for themselves.