If you cross reference all of this criteria, you'll find that it narrows it down to about a half dozen states at most.
This is fun stuff. I would personally place a high value on a functioning government: The recent experience in Texas pointed out that you can have a wonderfully independent rancho apocalypse that insulates you from government stupidity however it puts you on a high value target list for your freezing and starving neighbors.
I prefer to live in an area where I don't have to evaluate my neighbors based on their caloric content. Mostly because that's a lot of un-needed stress.
I'm pretty sure the Texans didn't kill and eat each other during the blackout.
You are correct. In fact most of us (who I know) helped each other with water, heat etc. Texans are pissed about what happened, and it exposed issues in our infrastructure, systems, and government. But we will fix it. I am not a native Texan, but I have lived here long enough to appreciate who they (we) are.
