In response to the claim that Texas has been outperforming California in recent years, it will be useful to consider some data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis put into handy chart form by the notably non-socialistic publication The Economist:
That's even more impressive because California is a higher income state to begin with. I generally argue that the so called woes of blue states such as New York, Illinois and California are all relative because they start out with a higher per capita income.
