I spoke to a relatively sane republican a few weeks ago about Texas and secession - and it’s still something very much at the forefront of Teas ‘conservative’ ‘thought’. He told me I threw away our friendship when I burst out laughing when he stated that a part of why Texas would succeed economically, is NASA.
That is the level of thought they have got to. And clearly despite one of the basic, uncontroversial republican ‘qualities’ being a respect for business-like governance(that they now only pretend to do), they still haven’t addressed(probably don’t even believe) that the people of Texas get far, far more - many Billions(61 in 2009) - federal money than it pays out in federal taxes.