Correct. They are setting it up to where there are three classes of Texans:
Those who are too poor/stuck in circumstances to leave. Gotta keep those people around, because you need wage slaves.
Native Texan cruel/racist/relatively wealthy pieces of shit. They are building their utopia now.
Imported MAGA assholes - the class above wants to draw as many MAGA assholes as they can, in order to lock in their grip on power.
And that is all done by driving off any Texans 1) of intelligence/decency who 2) have the means to GTFO.
When our retirement day comes, we're fucking out of here soon after. Not sure where yet (depends on where the kids end up...which we know will not be in Texas). Every place has its pros and cons, no place is perfect. But I just can't take the fucking relentless cruelty and meanness for the sake of being dicks. It's the one thing I cannot tolerate, it's the one thing we told our kids we would not tolerate under any circumstances. And it's our entire state ethos now: "how dickeaded can we be? Whatever you thought, watch me top it!"
My family has been here since it was Coahuila y Tejas. Until a few years ago, it never even occurred to me that we'd move away. Now, I can't imagine staying.