Wasn't it Texas where Wayne wanted the NRA to purchase a mansion for him? Maybe there's more to this Texas thing than simply trying to get out from under the purview of the State of New York.
Companies do strange things. A couple of decades ago, the major company in the automotive parts industry relocated its corporate headquarters (not the state where it's legally incorporated, the physical headquarters) from Texas to Connecticut. The company bought a former private school in Greenwich, Connecticut, and spent many millions of dollars renovating it to the CEO's specifications. From any logical, business perspective the move made zero sense.
Come to find out, the CEO's wife was a horsewoman. Not into rodeos or barrel racing, she was big into the hoity-toity riding and showing circus, and she felt that Greenwich was THE place to be for that sort of thing. So the CEO talked the board of directors into uprooting the entire corporate HQ, spending millions of dollars, putting 'X' number of people in Texas out of work -- all so he and his wife could live in Greenwich.
That was in 1995. Just four years later -- 1999 -- the company split and the corporate headquarters was moved to Illinois. But the CEO retired, so he and his wife were able to continue to live in Greenwich.