Native Texan and Houstonian here. I returned from a year in Asia for a family matter and didn’t plan on staying but life got in the way. Oh. And COVID. I don’t disagree that there are great things about the state, but the bad outweighs the good right now and I’m organizing and working with others
to change that. I’d rather have spent my retirement elsewhere and not having to badger/troll the Texas legislature and horde of miscreants, but these are the dystopian cards we’ve been dealt. However, until Texans do pull their heads out of their asses and recognize their part in maintaining the
current status quo of repression and regressive and reactionary politics (& the polity that results), the state deserves all the shit it gets. See also, every oppressive, ass-backwards, dumber’n a box of rocks state similarly afflicted. Texans are inordinately and stupidly proud of their “cowboy
up” mentality. And yes, many of us are the friendliest people you might meet, but there’s a whole lot of dumbass in our water and it really has diminished us to a tragic degree.