Texas is certainly welcoming them with open arms.
The main difference is that Elon likes to make a giant spectacle out of everything.Elon knows how to play the news.
What's going on here isn't anything special, as mentioned. Yet you look at announcements from Ford and other manufactures and see similar measures in place. In fact, these measures are almost done globally at this point.
Sadly it works well today when people want information quickly and don't look much deeper than the surface.The main difference is that Elon likes to make a giant spectacle out of everything.