Seattle seems hell bent on repeating the mistake of the Big Dig w/the Alaskan Way Viaduct so there's that...
I enjoyed hearing/reading the xenophobic conservative Texan media response to the 2010 census:
"Texas grew by 20% to 25 million!" <xenophobic conservative boner>
"Half of that growth was due to international immigration!" <boner shrinkage>
"More than half of the growth in the domestically born population was among minorities" <inverse boner>
Also:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...emocrats-turn-texas-and-arizona-blue-by-2016/