I gotta wonder, how are these folks going to be counted when it comes time to vote? If they're still in Texas, will they be voting as Texans in the next election (2006)? What kind of shift will this represent for Democrats in newly-gerrymandered Texas?

''What we are seeing across the state is that each city is handling the situation differently," Williams said. ''The largest city is Houston, which probably has 100,000 to 200,000 new friends and new Texans. They are handling it and they are doing it day by day."

Worth keeping an eye or two on, I think.