In 1946 Ernest Tubb wrote and recorded a song that said "There's a little bit of everything in Texas, just look around and you will see... There's a little bit of everything in Texas and a whole lot of Texas in me." His implication is that Texas is so big that anything you like about the other 47 states (at that time) you could also find those things in Texas (although maybe the little versions of those things). Hawaii and Alaska were not states at that time and I think they definitely have things that fall outside the realm of things you could find in Texas.