North Texas is a *terrible* target, save for the occasional sporting event. The population density isn’t anywhere near what you *really* want for secondary and tertiary infections.
I like to hope that if the “DC sniper” had tried his thing in Texas that somebody would’ve eventually stuck a deer tag on his ear.
True. However, there are some fairly densely populated areas, though nowhere near the scale that are in New York. However, the Dallas / Ft. Worth is either headquarters or operating headquarters for a huge number of corporations, and they are often clumped next to one another. Scatter anthrax in Plano, Richardson, or Las Colinas and you shut down a lot of major businesses, which would impact the country hard financially.
Not only that, but DFW Airport is one of the busiest in the world.