Clinton won the southland by nearly 400,000 votes with little coordination, it would have not been remotely close. Dallas County is the only blue county north of this line. In 2012 Obama would have eked out a win in this area by maybe a tenth of that amount. It would be even higher than 400k but a number of counties towards the northern edges had large +R totals.
You could move that line a couple of counties north to include the redder suburbs of Austin and Houston (including hyper-red Montgomery County) and she still would have won with 100k or so votes to spare.
The one county I'm disappointed in is Hays (San Marcos), there were an insane number of Bernie yard signs there around the university in the spring and it should flip by the next election. Also Nueces County (Corpus Christi) should turn soon. And it's nice to see the Dems pick up a true suburban county (Fort Bend).
While I would love to see the state split like this it's just a pipe dream. If anything it's yet another argument why the electoral college needs to go.
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