Again, you could have done it dozen different ways without resorting to the same misuse of words that the overly radicalized ignorants of both side of the democratic or republican spectrum choose to throw at each other. But fair, I didn’t answer your question.
It’s more to do with both the politics (Cali is a Blue State, meaning the majority of those that vote lean more towards Democratic, Liberal, more progressive/open-minded values. Texas is a Red State and leans in the opposite way. Republican, Conservative, more “old fashioned” values. Note that this isn’t always the case, and you can and will find a mixture of idiologies across it. Well, i can only personally speak for Texas since I live there, but that’s everywhere in the US, i want to say, not just these two titianic states) the cultures of the two places (both in the American side and Mexican side and how they mingled with each other throughout thier histories), and what region they’re located at. And there’s probably more factors I’m missing that contribute to why they are the way they are, like difference in educations of the two states, and just how different living in one place is to the other that yeah, it’s very complicated and can’t be distilled down to just “the gays” or “the artists”.