If there were enough people in Texas employed by the EV industry that it turned reliably blue, the GOP wouldn't have a viable path towards winning the presidency or the House without a substantial realignment. I think it would almost force the GOP to reconsider its approach to addressing climate change.
(That said, I don't see this as particularly likely in the short term, and if it does happen it won't be exclusively due to the EV sector in the state. Just to do some napkin math... Say a factory employs maybe 20k people as an upper bound, and maybe 2x that are employed in support functions outside of the factory? So 60k more people seeing their livelihoods tied to the success of EVs than exist today. That's still only 10% of the GOP margin of victory in the state in 2020. Green jobs alone ain't gonna cut it)
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u/pn_dubya 25d ago
I mean for better or worse Texas almost went blue last election, can't paint with too broad of strokes here.