I appreciate your optimism, but Texas is already exhibiting California-style qualities.
- Texas’ school districts now combine for more debt than California’s. Texas school district debt = $64 billion. California = $47.9 billion.
-Texas’ state spending per person now exceeds California, including education. Texas total spending = $3,891/person. California = #3,819/person. Texas state education spending = $2,043/person. California = $1,345.
Do these stats seems conservative to you? Texas has been a victim of its own success. No one pays attention to state politics. We assume, that because everyone is a Republican, its all gum drop forests and unicorns. We have open primaries, so the Democrats just show up and vote for the most moderate candidates.
People need to wake up in Texas.
Post 51 accurately described deep, fundamental differences between Texas and California.
You can just make your own post about the imperfections of Texas (or any state) without trying to pretend that you are correcting something I said, because you aren’t.