A Fox News street segment on Thursday, highlighted in a report by Alternet, set out to find red-state voters angry about Texas going blue in the midterms. Instead, the network's interviews in neighboring Arkansas — among the most reliably Republican states in the country — turned up several unexpectedly positive reactions, with some residents saying of Texas' Democratic shift, "it's about time." The state, which twice carried native son Bill Clinton in presidential elections in the 1990s, has voted Republican in every presidential race since 2000, making the reactions all the more notable.

"It's crazy to me that my home state of Texas went blue," said a grinning young man wearing a sweatshirt for Harding University, a Christian college in Arkansas. "I think my parents are gonna have a fit about that."

Moments later, another interviewee voiced dismay over the midterm outcome — in which Democrats achieved historic victories across Texas — insisting that "going blue" was a mistake and vowing that he would leave Arkansas if his own state did the same. The Harding student offered a dissenting view. "I disagree," he said. "I think it's bound to happen at some point. It's just a matter of time."

An older man interviewed in the same segment was even more emphatic. "I'm really glad," he said when asked about the Texas outcome. "My brother lives in Dallas and let me tell you — it's about time. ... This state's been mostly a Trump state, and [Arkansas Governor] Sarah Huckabee. I knew she'd get voted in again, but we need to get away from the MAGA. And she's part of it."

Last week's midterms delivered a bruising loss for the GOP in Texas, where Democrats carried not only the most high-profile races but every statewide contest as well. James Talarico's 12-point victory over Ken Paxton — a scandal-riddled, diehard MAGA candidate running with the endorsement of President Donald Trump — sends a Democrat to the Senate from Texas for the first time in four decades. Gina Hinojosa's win over longtime Governor Greg Abbott gives the state its first blue governor since the early 1990s.

Democrats also won the lieutenant governorship, the state attorney general's office, the majority in the Texas State House, and all four Texas Supreme Court seats — including that of chief justice, which went to the state's first openly LGBTQ+ statewide elected official. Taken together, the sweep represented the first statewide Democratic victories in Texas since 1994, a three-decade stretch in which Republicans otherwise held every statewide office in the state.

Texas was not the only red state to turn blue. Democrats won big in unlikely places such as South Carolina, North Carolina, Iowa, and Kansas — the last of which had not elected a Democrat to the Senate in nearly 100 years. On Wednesday, it was announced that Democrats had also flipped a Senate seat in Mississippi for the first time since 1982, giving the state its first Black senator since just after the Civil War. All of those states have gone Republican in recent presidential elections, making them dependable parts of the GOP's national map.

For one Arkansas voter who spoke with Fox, his state — while still firmly red for now — is beginning to show signs of turning purple. Asked whether Arkansans could go Democratic, he said, "Parts of the state, yes, like where we're at," adding, "Northwest Arkansas is turning more blue." Whether the sentiment captured on camera extends beyond pockets like that one is a question the segment left open.