I agree with you but Iowa at present is pretty good with its congress members.
There’s no good Senators north of Arkansas (Cotton’s good) except Chuck Grassley. Ayotte, Toomey, Burr, Rand, Mitch... are all RINOs.
Steve King, Rod Blum and Chuck Grassley are better than most in congress. 2 out of the 3 GOP Congressmen from Iowa voted against Boehner. Steve King is the opposite to the GOPE on amnesty and Blum is the opposite to the GOPE on funding ISIS.
Texas only has Cruz and Gohmert out of I think 26 GOP congress members. Most others are RINOs and definitely not as conservative as King or Blum on key issues.
Id rather the GOP be convinced they need to pander to corn farmers than some other demographic.
Therein lies the rub. I trust the demographics of Texas more than I do the demographics of Iowa. You might have good men right now, but your state went to Obama. And didn't they hand things off last time to Santorum, with Romney a close second? Neither of those two losers would have gotten that kind of a result in Texas.