You are living in a parallel universe. I have lived in a lot of areas of this country and being an American trumps any alliegence to a particular state. My allegience is to the Constitution of the United States of America.I agree that you can feel that way.
I just love Texas and the people who make it my favorite place to live , raise my family, practice my profession, keep what I earn and just live my life with family and friends. Our current government in DC and other states can't even fathom what we have here.
small examples are the little things; like my kids saying the pledge of allegience to Old Glory followed by "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. " or the way the 13 year old girl next door shot a bigger buck 3 years ago than my son. But she was nice enough to help him quarter it up on our driveway and compare antlers.
honestly, if it was up to me I'd respectfully ask politely if we could just go our own way. I'd like to have everybody that believed in free markets , rule of law and capitalism stay and all the nipple sucking parasites go to the really smart, enlightend and progressive parts of the country north of the Red River, east of the Sabine and west of Muleshoe.
of course that's only my opinion and yor mileage may vary.
In the coming years, Texas will turn purple and then blue if we don't change our immigration policies. Here is some evidence about what is happening in places like Harris, Dallas, and Tarrrant counties
Immigration, Political Realignment, and the Demise of Republican Political Prospects
"What is quite remarkable is that even when we consider Texas alone we find that, as the immigrant population has grown across its 254 counties, the Republican vote share has declined from where it stood 30 years ago. Estimates for California and Texas appear in Table 4. For Texas, the estimate shows that for every 1 percent increase in the immigrant presence in a county, the Republican vote share dropped by 0.67 percentage points, which is considerably higher than the impact nationally. A one standard deviation (σ=6.07) increase in the percentage of immigrants taking up residence in Texas counties, translates into a four percentage-point drop in Republican Party prospects, controlling for income and the percentage of black residents. Contrary to conventional wisdom, immigration is precisely why the GOP has lost so much ground in the most heavily Latino areas of South Texas, as well as in the larger urban counties."