Without Texas, this nation would have negative economic growth and gasoline would be over $4 a gallon.
More than 1 million jobs were created by Texas since 2008 so that you and your pals would have a place to flee to.
Texas has nothing to be ashamed of.
Look behind you on the list of oil producing states. We added 1 million BOPD of production. Things were a mite busy up this way, too.