Of course, much like Oklahoma, if you're anything other than a straight white male Christian that likes bad weather, living in Texas has major downsides that can't be compensated for, no matter how nice the financial incentives are.
If someone gave me land in Texas for free, my first inclination would be to sell it as fast as possible, not go live on it.
Considering that 40% of Texans are Hispanic/Latino, your label of "white" may be misleading your audience.
I mean, it's not like Texas is well-known for fair and equitable treatment of its Hispanic/Latino populace. There is a pretty obvious through-line from the Porvenir massacre of 1918 to the modern practice of busing and flying Hispanic/Latino migrants to other states.
I personally think it's tragic and offensive that migrants are being used in what appears to be political stunts by top-level public servants.
But.
One-third of all Texas residents is either an immigrant or the child of an immigrant, due to Texas' long history of immigration. The state is routinely one of the top few in the nation when it comes to immigration; pre-COVID, in fact, Texas had more net international migrants per capita than California. Whenever I'm in Texas, my general impression is that immigration is an accepted and completely normal part of life there. With that in mind, though, it's also the case that one-third of all immigrants in Texas are undocumented (a.k.a. illegal aliens). It's pretty easy for me to understand, then, how Texas would be frustrated with federal immigration policies that seem to disproportionately affect that state–especially when it comes to unauthorized foreigners being 'released' into the state–even if the effects of that have been exaggerated and politicized.
I do find it ironic that such busing is described in left-wing media as wreaking havoc on the northern and eastern cities to which the migrants are being bused. For some reason, that shouldn't be those states' problem, but it
should be Texas' problem. WTF? If Texas doesn't want the influx, then we're supposed to believe it's because of racism and xenophobia; but, if New York or DC doesn't want them either, then we're supposed to be sympathetic. Well, I guess, maybe Texas should have thought of that before they went and put their border next to Mexico...
But, anyway, that's all tangential to race. Are white Venezuelans and Mexicans being given preferential treatment over black Haitians and indigenous Guatemalans? Or do you just think of everyone from south of the border as "not white"?
All right, enough about race and immigration.
You also claim that not being a Christian has "major downsides" in Texas. Would you please go into more detail about that? I'm scratching my head, trying to figure out what disadvantages non-Christians in Texas might have–you know, in a state where a full one-fourth of adults 'seldom' or 'never' attend any religious services, Christian or otherwise.