I wonder if these things had something to do with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...

> Of the Act's top ten recipients, seven states had voted majority Republican, with Wyoming ($1.95 billion) and Texas ($1.71 billion) in the lead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Impact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act#Implem...

I live in Florida.

Is the new rail you’re talking about the brightline?

It pretty much exclusively goes to and from tourist centers and is far too expensive ($40-$60 per seat each way) to deter most residents from just driving to Orlando. I wouldn’t really call it infrastructure (like the tri rail is.)

Not to mention that it’s the deadliest train in the US. People here barely follow traffic laws, but when you have it passing through major foot traffic areas every hour like on antlantic avenue in Delray Beach, people are going to get hit.

Texas currently has snow again, so expect it's grid to catastrophically fail again because it doesn't have access to the rest of the USA grid.

So expect a bad result again for like the 4 time in 5 year.