Shameful Record Of Politically-Motivated Neglect: Texas Leads The Developed World In Maternal Mortality Rates Texas is just different: ask anyone from the U.S. who has ever been there. Hell, even people from Texas will tell you it’s different. For one thing, many people from the state still consider it a country of its own, separate from the U.S. Yet it is still is on the receiving end of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal taxpayer largesse every year.… Read the rest