My neighbor’s high-achiever daughters told their mom they don’t want to go to college here (“here” meaning Texas), my wife and I for the first time in at least 20 years at least talked about the idea of a future not in Texas, and we’ve both told our little girl that if she wants to move away, she’s more than welcome and we’d understand.

The plural of anecdote is not data, and TBF I haven’t seen a ton of people actually go yet, but it does make it extremely easy to imagine a brain drain coming. If the Texas GOP wants good little evangelicals who don’t think too hard, they should be careful what they wish for.