I do not know who "Muqing M. Zhang" is, and have never heard of his Twitter.
What he wrote obviously sounds stupid.
If you are genuinely interested in reading stupid-racist stuff, just patrol this board for a while. I never cease to be amazed at how many conservatives here are overt racist swine.
As to lawns, we live in a desert. It is just stupid and wasteful to try to import the Midwest and have a big ass green lawn. In Tucson, we did not have a single blade of grass, but we had rock gardens and desert landscaping...and it looked freakin' awesome!
We are on the verge of a point-of-no-return climate change paradigm, in which our droughts will get worse, heat waves more persistent, and precipitation patterns altered and more unreliable. Big ass green lawns just ain't gonna cut it anymore, jack!
This reminds me of leaving an arid area and entering a wet, moist, humid area.
As High School ended, I couldn't WAIT to see what was on the 'other side of the mountain'. I'm from an arid 'desert' area, about as south and west as you can get. If ANYTHING was green, it was being watered. The usual tactic was to turn the sprinklers on very early in the morning to avoid evaporation by the sun.
So, I start hitch-hiking East to see where Destiny takes me. 'Hurricane Betsy' (it's aftermath, that is) drew me to Louisiana, where my first reaction was: "Man, they got a good sprinkler system around here". Whereupon, the Driver said "Yeah, it's called rain". Then, in response, and being from Southern Cal, I said in a puzzled voice "Rain?".
So Cypress. In Tucson a rock garden or cactus lawn might be appropriate but in other areas of the country (and this may be hard for you to believe if you've lived in the Southwest forever), you NEVER have to water your lawn or anything else.
Oh, and a Tip: You know how on the rare occasion it does 'rain' in the Southwest and you love to go walk in it for an hour just to feel the sensation of moisture on your face, well, DON'T do it in Louisiana. Within a minute, you will be DRENCHED head to toe. They have these fucking HUGE rain droplets that are completely FILLED with water! It's un fucking real!