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Old 11-17-2012, 09:02 AM
Status: "We need America back!" (set 2 days ago)
 
Location: Suburban Dallas
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No way.


Period.
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Old 11-17-2012, 12:27 PM
 
Location: Greenville, Delaware
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Has anyone else mentioned that this would require the consent of Congress, which even with a Republican majority in the House is quite unlikely to agree admission of new Texas statelets, unless perhaps coupled with admission of DC, PR, and perhaps various US territories such as Guam. If Republicans controlled both Houses of Congress there might be some chance of getting new states carved up from the parts of West TX admitted, but no areas not absolutely safe for the Repubs. However it would also die in the Senate unless theRepubs had a super-majority.
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Old 11-17-2012, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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This kind of thing is always thrown around when Republicans are dealt stinging defeat.
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Old 11-17-2012, 12:57 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I don't like being lumped in with Austin! But then again that would lead us to be put with the El Norte. EWWWWWWW!
Austin doesn't want San Antonio either. El Norte is where it belongs.
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Old 11-17-2012, 02:19 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Austin doesn't want San Antonio either. El Norte is where it belongs.
Eww no thanks.
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Old 11-17-2012, 02:48 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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This kind of thing is always thrown around when Republicans are dealt stinging defeat.
Texans always talk about seceding. The election didn't have anything to do with it. All 50 states have signed petitions to secede btw...
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Old 11-17-2012, 03:15 PM
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Location: Fort Worth
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Texans always talk about seceding. The election didn't have anything to do with it. All 50 states have signed petitions to secede btw...
NOT ALL of us....

And I really wouldn't take those petitions too seriously.
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Old 11-17-2012, 03:37 PM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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Texans always talk about seceding. The election didn't have anything to do with it. All 50 states have signed petitions to secede btw...
I know, that's why I said Republicans, not Texas Republicans. But the Repubs in Texas tend to throw this around even more than usual when they have had a bad election night.
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Old 11-17-2012, 04:20 PM
 
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This whole "division" of "Repubicans" and "Democrats...is so simlistic. As George Wallace once said..."there is not a damn dimes worth of difference between the two parties..."

Hell, I tend to vote Republican...but ONLY because the candidates they nominate (at a state level) are simply more conservative. Othewise, I have no loyalty to the Republican Party at all. In fact, they deserve the label "Stupid Party"...in the sense that they are, at the national level, a bunch of wimps and worms without any sort of cojones to articulate their supposed message...whatever the hell it is, anyway...

But point is, that the "division" within the country today goes much deeper than Dem v. Rep. Unfortunately, that is how all too many see it.....

The reality of it is that lines in sand are ever more being drawn -- as concerns economic/social issues --that are not necessarily associated strictly with a party label...
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Old 11-17-2012, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Texas State Fair
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Austin doesn't want San Antonio either. El Norte is where it belongs.
S.A.-Austin market data could be combined - San Antonio Express-News
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