No, doesn't seem worse than Texas. Their police (at least in Albuquerque) seem terrible, but the people are nice and it's reasonably liberal. Our kid is non-binary and there getting their PhD. They've have a pretty good experience.
It smacks of the kind of twisted logic you might find in Business Insider (who only recently stopped writing articles about "how workers secretly hate working from home"). Also, there's no linked journal paper, so we should assume this hasn't been peer reviewed at all. Garbage article, garbage conclusion.
Well, the confluence of "yay GOP" and "yay Russia" isn't all that weird, no... but the exclusive focus on "Texas Texas Texas" with super detailed interest in individual battles in Ukraine, and nothing else (no election, or federal economy, or news from Arizona or over the border in Mexico, etc etc) is a little unusual.
Also, I found this channel that they like posting videos from also to be fascinating, for example with this video:
The most important updates are coming from the United States of America, where, according to information we have, Manhattan Court declares former US president Donald Trump guilty on every single one of the charges. This confirms that the clashes, the battle between Joe Biden, the current president of the United States of America, and the former president, Donald Trump, are getting more and more fierce. According to the latest polls, according to information we have, Trump wins 312 to 226 over Biden.
Biden understands that this is a vital question for him. He understands that if he loses, he's not the only one who will lose; a lot of people will suffer significant problems from Trump. Obviously, after court, after all these charges, Trump will, let's say, seek revenge, not just on Biden but on everybody who supports Biden in, let's say, the next possible presidential term of this person.
Not just farmers. People who own land often get money from oil companies just to prospect oil. I was in a jury selection for a case with two oil companies fighting, and there were so many people who had gotten or were still getting money for mineral rights or pumps.
I wonder if there would be a correlation if they asked "Do you think of yourself as a Texan (or whichever state) first or an American first. I would bet a lot more Texans identify with state more than country.
We're very weird in Texas. Despite the failures of our politicians, many residents have really strong positive feelings about our state because of the size and variety of options available - other than abortion and education funding of course. Each city/area has it's own Identity, landscape, history, and culture which creates sort of a nationalism, even though there's often animosity between them - Dallas and fort Worth hate each other because fort Worth is full of rednecks and Dallas thinks it's so fucking cosmopolitan. Most of us are disgusted by the Texas we see on the news and wish the rest of the world could see big bend, Hill country, the piney woods, Palo duro canyon, and the Texas Coast.
The Texas in the news is the one that affects people's quality of life. Nature is great, but nature won't protect you from hostile legislators, and you can find amazing nature in almost every state (hence why that aspect doesn't warrant news coverage). I wouldn't be surprised if Texas GOP legislators eventually sell off that beautiful nature, or remove protections for it, to get kickbacks from whatever company wants to exploit it in the coming years.
I maintain that Texans who love Texas because it's Texas have rose-colored glasses and remember a past time when it used to be a pretty nice place to live, overall.
I'd wager there's at least a million Texans that have never left the state. It's hard to get a sense you're part of many other states if you've never left yours. Almost every time I leave the state I experience some kind of culture shock.
