You're not going to become a Republican, are you?

So I'm moving back to Texas in a couple weeks. The unexpected (at first) question I get all the time from CA people is the above title. No, I won't become a republican just for the sake of being one, like everyone else in Texas. That rhetorical question makes me not like my fellow Democrats. I really despise the elitist attitude of most CA liberals. What if I was to become a Republican? Does that make me a stupid person? The general consensus is that Republicans are the elitists leaving stragglers in the dust, while the Democrats are looking after/helping pick up these stragglers. Somehow through academia or personal achievement or something, people here in their expensive houses have decided they're better than the stupid "war-mongering" people of middle america.

To be fair, most Republicans I know have the same elitist attitude, but won't admit it or don't realize it. (Damn green-haired hippie lesbians.) If you ask 10 people in that state why they say they are Republican, 8 will say because they like GWB. While he did a lot for Texas, I think his tunnel vision does not mesh well being the leader of the free world.

To break the tie, I feel that liberals at least have a reason, usually, for not liking conservatives. If you ask most TX Republicans why they don't like liberals, they (won't say it but) are thinking because they different than me therefore I hate them.

Enough with the GWB jokes. He's too easy of a target. Note to people who mock/imitate him: you are not funny or original. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Although for some reason, Jon Stewart's impersonation is always funny.