Last week, we got on a plane and flew to Dallas, Texas because we wanted to know why everybody

else is going there.

Over the past decade, more people have relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area than

anywhere else in the US.

It is on track to become the third largest metro area in the country, jumping ahead of

Chicago and trailing only New York and Los Angeles.

In that episode, the first of two, we focused on the city of Dallas itself, how it grew

over the past century despite the lack of traditional attributes, like a port or even a big

river.

We heard about Dallas's history of racism and its continuing inequities around income, housing

and education.

We learned that the city's reputation of friendliness is well deserved.

We also learned that real estate developers have too much leverage in city hall and that

the mayor has too little leverage.

Along the way, we ate way too much barbecue, saw some wonderful art, and we soaked a bit

when the mayor said he would pick us up at the airport and then didn't.

Today on Freakin' I'm a 3DW, we zoom out to look at the bigger metro area and the bigger

issues, including Texas politics.

A really big part of the state population lives in places that are really quite purple.

We visit one of those rapidly purpling areas, which also happens to be the suburban outpost

of the Dallas Cowboys.

We were a city of 6,000 people, we're now up to 215,000.

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