&gt;Texas isn't just a bunch of gun-toting, xenophobic, ultra-religious republicans. 

True, I knew a gun-toting friendly gay atheist there. 

Gays in Texas? Why yes, Dallas is one of the gayest cities in the country.

&gt;Austin is in Texas too you know.

Austin isn't in Texas. There's a static warp field from San Francisco to an otherwise empty area of the state. 