Unfettering itself from Washington's crazy policies, unshackling gas & oil from the enslavement of the Greens, practicing free trade, and freeing her citizens of high taxation would pretty much ensure that within 10 years, it would be.
Even today, Texas, Our Texas, is the second most populous state of our current 50.
There are no viable areas in Texas that are off limits to E&P.
Just wait until Texas seceeds, it will be the LARGEST populated. I am a Texan living in Okla., many people would move there.