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Waits can be long in rural areas, and in some parts of the state (such as West Texas), the distance between towns and the high speed limit can mean very long waits. However, in more populous rural areas, short hop rides are fairly available, and lifts from old ladies and volunteer fire chiefs are not uncommon. The casual kindness of Mexicans is your salvation, they'll just throw you in the back of the pickup without a second thought- I think this is because hitchhiking is common in Mexico.

Listen Well Hitchers: (If are or merely look like you could possibly be Hispanic) stay away from the border! Once you get down there, it's quite a nasty deliverance to climb back up far enough for folks to trust you. Let's say keep a ~50-100 mile buffer if you can. As if immigration paranoia weren't enough of a problem, for all people know you might be transporting drugs and unwanted intelligences. There are often border check-points some dozen miles up from the actual crossings that bother folks' consciences who often consider hitchhiking a sort of moral transgression (against capitalism, must be. sheesh. damn straight.).