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They don't seem to care about themselves either. It's their own land/water/air they pollute by letting corporations exploit them. It's their own people who freeze to death when their shitty power grid can't keep up with extreme weather, or who die from overheating while at work. It's their own family members who die in fertilizer plant explosions. Their own kids who are being mangled at trampoline parks. They're the ones living in the state with the highest population without heath insurance in the country.
Companies have convinced Texas that regulations are from the devil so that they can make money hand over fist at the expense of Texans and the people of Texas fell for it. They figured out a lot time ago that if you can convince a Texan that you're giving him freedom from The Man, you can bend that Texan right over and have him thank you for sticking it wherever it pleases you.
I lived there for 17 years.
Certainly never ran into anyone who feels the way you just described.
Or do you have some sort of political viewpoint that's influencing your opinion?
In your 17 years of experience were Texans demanding regulations to protect themselves, their environment, and their families? Were they refusing to elect officials who would allow corporations to exploit them?
Id argue regulations blocking deregulated connection to fed grid as at least arguably as valid an opinion as the regulated one. Regulations killed Texans because they are so obsessed with their fed grid rules theyd rather Texans die than grant ERCOT unregulated access.
It was the refusal to follow the same rules everybody else plays by that caused the problem for Texans, not the fact that rest of the country has standards and insists that they're followed.
The regulated grid works. The "we don't need rules" grid failed, and it will continue to fail Texans until they care about themselves and families enough to demand better. They don't even have to demand connection to the national grid, Texans could just demand regulations for their own grid that are even stricter than the national grid's rules and stay separate. Texas could create a system of regulations that make their grid the most well-run grid in the country.
The people in Austin?
The people in Dallas?
The rural Texans?
The immigrants?
That's a pretty damned broad brush you're painting with there.
Pretty dang obvious I dont know 30m people, but statistics tells you only need to sample 100s to get great information about a population.