Tax incentives, lower cost of living, and pro business local governments are driving larger companies to relocate headquarters or major research ops to Texas en-mass.
Sounds like a great place to live, if you're privileged and don't care about the environment or the poor.
Or, perhaps you move there because you care about the environment or the poor, and that's how change happens.
Gonna need a whole lot more people to move there before any change occurs.
Well you need some way to pay for the tax subsidies.
Are those environmental stats per capita or area? I ask only because it's by far the largest state in the CONUS, which makes me wonder if that doesn't play a contributing role.
Not to mention a crazy governor who believes military exercises are a prelude to Obama taking over his state.