Why Texas is Becoming America's Most Powerful State

Texas is the only state I've ever been too where there are more people who identify with the state than identify with the country. A true testament to how unique the Texas culture is.

We add the fact that Mexico is becoming a manufacturing superpower and Laredo, TX is becoming its logistics partner into the US. Texas is holding so many cards right now.

I’ve lived in a small town in Texas for my entire life, and let’s just say it’s been an EXPERIENCE seeing how much this once “small town” has changed. It’s now soooo over populated. I miss my small town😭

It feels good to hear positive facts about my home state. ❤ Born and raised Texas proud from the ATX. Now, let's pray for some rain. 🌧 🙏🏼

"The gap in land size between Texas and Alaska can never be filled" Texas has declared war on Oklahoma

Texas has some of the greatest bird diversity in the United States. Many birds use Texas as a transit in their migratory routes. The wildflowers in the state are beautiful, especially with blue bonnets. You see waves wildflowers in the highways and many in the country roads.

I moved to Texas in 2019 from Kentucky. I got my house in 2020 (during the pandemic) & this is the best thing I could've done (should've moved here years ago)

I moved from downtown SF to Southwest San Antonio. People are so educated here, is lovely. I'm loving texas and the birds singing in the morning instead of homeless in drugs howling in pain and desperation at 5am. I JUST FUCKING LOVE TEXAS

I'm glad you brought up how much wind power we produce in Texas. It's a massive operation. You can't go down any highway out in the west of the state without seeing wind farms now.

Living in Austin, TX my whole life I can tell you that the growth out here is insane. Every time I go off to college and come back for breaks, there’s 3 new apartment complexes and 2 more lanes of traffic paved

I moved to Texas in 2019 and the amount of growth that has occurred in this short period of time is insane! Texas is a great state; however, traffic is becoming unbearable in almost every direction. They have been widening the roads, doing construction and such, but I can only imagine what Texas will look like in a few more years. I love Texas and have no plans to leave 😊.

I’ve lived in Texas for the past 17 years, spent my entire 13 year stint in the Navy in three of its NOSCs, and I have loved every second of it. I’m just sad that I may have to leave after marrying into Active Military. Hopefully we can come back home after retirement.

My parents bought their home in austin for something like $80,000 in 1991. Last year their neighbor sold their home for $1 million. It's just a normal neighborhood built in the late 70s. That is wild to me.

The “affordability” of Texas though is quickly going away. The incomes are justifying the rapidly increasing housing cost and all the other costs that are shooting up

I'm glad he finally mentioned Corpus Christi after showing its biggest port in TX and refineries at least 5 times previously. I'm surprised though he didn't mention the beaches as a growing travel destination. We continue to see more and more Canadians, Asians, and Europeans vacation here.

Even with this crazy housing rate going on, my Real estate business in Dallas has not slowed down much. I get a lot of out of state clients from California and New York I show them what they can afford here in Texas land and they always say “this could triple the price in my state”. As my Texan clients are starting to have some trouble keeping up with the prices.

As a German I‘m impressed that Texas is literally bigger than Germany entirely, at least geographically

I lived in Texas for about 6 years, and you can literally see the population growing on a month by month basis. I dated a girl that live nearly an hour away and I could see the traffic on 35 get heavier and heavier over the course of 2 years.

I'm a life long Texan and I've noticed the growth even in small towns. A lot of it (from what I've seen) is from people leaving California, Florida, and Oklahoma to come to Texas.

I'm out of touch with what is taught in school these days, but when I was in 7th grade (1964) in San Antonio, we had the required Texas history class as taught by a native Texan, as were most of us back then. San Antonio was more than half Mexican, descended from families who lived there since Texas was part of Mexico. I left Texas for a few years for NY state and Chicago but came back home. In those places, I never saw the state pride and welcoming homey feeling. Texas used to be like a big spread out town...everyone was so neighborly. It's lessened over the years a little. It harder in the bigger cities to catch the Texas aesthetic. But I plan to stay here the rest of my life if I have my way.