We can't all be an angry cynics you know...
So-called (typical) "human rights" were only respected in America for maybe the last 40 years or less.
The Flying Tigers general was technically illegally married to his Chinese wife (anti-miscegenation law) in Louisiana. So really, what is this "long history of respecting human rights"?
It isn't just Texas
Florida has instituted an election police that is destroying lives (disproportionately affects Blacks, so basically a cultural genocide)
North Carolina is allowing the ruling party to redraw districts to keep themselves in power (I guess they were inspired by NPC electing Xi to a 3rd term)