Texas is experiencing an oil and gas boom, which is great for them. I'm glad they're making use of new technologies to the benefit of their state and our country (although I am getting worried about the sharp rise in earthquakes happening right next to the sharp rise in the use of hydro-fracking here in Oklahoma). But let's not pretend this is a policy achievement.
That 5% growth increase, for instance, is not from domestic migration. In fact, Texas is about breaking even in that respect. The net domestic influx from 2010 to 2011 was just over 80,000, in a state with a population of about 25 million. What's driving that population increase is Texas's massive birth rate (#5 for teen births in 2011) and international immigration.
Other states produce oil, like California. Yet their economies are nowhere near as good as Texas'.
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Liberty fosters prosperity.....something California has to learn again.....and Texas has to watch it doesnt go down the same path California has gone down....like everyone from all over flocking to your State and turning it into a mess....
That happened in CO. Bunch of Californicators fled the state and settled there. And then voted for the same shitty fucked up policies they had just fled from. Now Colorado is on the verge of becoming SanFran East with gun bans and shit.