“WTF took them so long?”
Texas has a whorehouse in it and it’s called Austin! Austin, Madison, Sacramento, you name it; they are all Marxist crap holes! Look at a political map of the country, it’s always blue around the state capitols.
Follow the money. Money is concentrated in state capitals (as well as Washington, D.C.) Money corrupts. That's how you get human cesspools like Austin.