Inside The 1 Percent's Texas Enclave

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Howdy from Highland Park, where taxes are low, the gun store's booming, and donations to the GOP are way, way above average.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/highland-park-texas-gop-stronghold

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1. Could anything be worse than a stinking rich "entitled" republican Texan?

It's fair to call 75205, the zip code for most of Highland Park, the most enthusiastically Republican enclave in the country. Among the two-dozen zip codes that donated the most money to candidates and political parties last year, 75205 gave the highest share—77 percent—to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. It also gave Republicans more hard cash, $2.4 million, than all but four other zips nationwide. Affluent, insular, and intensely sure of itself, Highland Park is the red-state counterpart of, say, Berkeley. It's a place where, one native son half-jokes, friends might ask one another, "Do you want to come over for barbecue after we go vote for Mitt Romney?" People in the surrounding city of Dallas, where I grew up, call it the Bubble.