WASHINGTON – Texans distanced themselves after the leader of a large progressive bloc in Congress called Israel a “racist state” ahead of a Wednesday address by Israel’s president. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, drew international condemnation after her comment last weekend. Advertisement “I absolutely would never, ever characterize one country as being completely racist,” Dallas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a freshman Democrat who is part of the progressive caucus, said Tuesday. “There may be people that want to call our entire country racist, which I think would be wrong. I’m here and I am not that…...