In order for this logic to track, one must believe in the preservation of the union. This is what liberals and the left in general do not understand, I think: States rights breaks the union, making each state a semi-nation state and they WANT this so bad they'll destroy the country over it. The Federal Government would be viewed almost as a foreign concern. It ends up being the EU. Every state for themselves. They want a new confederacy, plain and simple. That, or a return to the unworkable Articles of Confederation.
THIS is what they ultimately want. It is why they attempt to tear down when in office, rather than build. Cutting funding to states and vital services is how they make programs fail, ultimately claiming it was the program's fault. Watch how they will attack health care: they will starve the beast by trying to defund it, then declare it a failure. But then, they claim SSI and Medicare are failures, too. They've been after those a long time and will never hide the fact they want those programs gone.
If the jobs go to Texas and nowhere else, Texas would view this as a very good thing. Destruction of another state's economy, as in business, would be good. It eliminates competition.