But as NPR's Linda Wertheimer reports from Houston, there are some shifting sentiments in the Lone Star State.

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Foreign investors could be forgiven for sharing at least some of these sentiments.

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"I do wonder if some of the sentiments alternately expressed about the film might be more appropriately directed at those who instituted and ordered these U.S. policies, as opposed to a motion picture that brings the story to the screen, " she wrote.

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