Texas has a bit of a split personality, which I guess is fairly common in conservative states towards the West: on the one hand it tends to be in favor of small

Texas has a bit of a split personality, which I guess is fairly common in conservative states towards the West: on the one hand it tends to be in favor of small government, free markets, etc., but on the other hand it also lionizes small towns, rural areas, the "real Texas" that isn't Houston/Dallas/Austin. Those two kinds of preferences are often in conflict, since small-town Main Street, left to its own devices, does not necessarily prosper in a modern economy.