There has been quite a bit of reporting in the past week about the new Collin County-based Conservative Move company that seeks to help "Conservative families move to Conservative areas of America." The proprietor is touting Texas, and especially Collin County, as an ideal place for conservatives to make a home. I normally wouldn't comment on an entrepreneur with a new business, but in this case I feel it would be a public service.

There are many very good reasons to move to Collin County. It's a wonderful place to live (except perhaps for Texas summers), with a suburban lifestyle, the amenities of a big city within easy driving distance, great schools, good roads and public services, and a highly educated, prosperous citizenry. However, if people move to Collin County expecting to find a conservative utopia, they are going to be very disappointed.

Yes, it's been a while since Democrats won a partisan elective office in Collin County. But the voting trends over the last 20 years predict this once reddest-of-the-red county is going to be solidly purple by the mid-2020s — and that's if neither we nor the Republicans change what we're doing. Of course, we Democrats have been upping our game here to make that transformation happen much sooner.

In the last two partisan general elections Collin County turned Democratic at a faster rate than most other counties in the state. In the May nonpartisan elections for city councils and school boards, the Tea Party favorites for mayor in Plano and McKinney were defeated handily, without runoffs, by moderate Republicans. The conservative Plano City Council slate that favored repealing the city's 2014 Equal Rights Ordinance, protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination, was mostly defeated. Two open Democrats were elected countywide to the Collin College Board of Trustees, and several others qualified for the June 10 City Council runoff elections.

Collin County is one of the fastest-growing counties in the nation. A significant part of our growth has come from corporate relocations. Significantly, corporations relocating here have been looking for communities that value and protect diversity.

They're finding those communities here. As of the 2010 census, Collin County was about 15 percent Asian, 10 percent African-American and 25 percent Hispanic. There is also a large active gay and lesbian community.

For sure, conservatives moving here will find plenty of conservatives as neighbors, and they will find lots of conservative churches and political groups to join. They are also likely to find their neighbor or co-worker is a Muslim of South Asian heritage, a liberal Jew or Catholic who emigrated from New York, a native Texan of Mexican-American heritage, or a dad who is raising a family with his husband. They may find their neighbors are active in a steadily growing number of Democratic clubs and social organizations, or working on the campaign of a Democratic candidate.

Moving often ranks just under "looking for a new job" on people's lists of least favorite things to do. We would hate for anyone to go to so much trouble only to find their new community isn't quite what they were expecting.

Some people imagine that Conservative Move or similar efforts are going to turn Collin even more conservative. That's amusing, because the county's most recently published demographic data showed 77 people per day are moving here. People move here for a variety of reasons, and political ideology is only one. In fact, our analysis here at the Collin County Democratic Party of voting trends indicates these newcomers are more progressive and Democratic than longtime residents.

Conservative Move is going to have to sell a lot of houses to make even a small dent in our political landscape.

Mike Rawlins is chairman of the Collin County Democratic Party. He wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News. Email: chair@collindemocrats.org

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