The State/County/City balance of authority in Texas is biased far more toward Counties than in any other state. They have 4x more counties than more populous Ca

The State/County/City balance of authority in Texas is biased far more toward Counties than in any other state. They have 4x more counties than more populous California and over 10x more than larger Alaska. It reads to me like any "phobia" over this simple fact is inferred by the reader, not implied by the writer.