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Again? Hey, I know it's mildly entertaining speculation and all that, but would it be too much to ask that you either start seceding or stop talking about it every time you don't get your way? This wishy-washy indecisiveness is becoming tiresome.
I've got a really stupid question. Why does everyone assume that if a state were to actually secede that it would be absolute blue or absolute red? Hasn't it ever occurred to anyone that perhaps that a "new" country could get it right this time. The best of both worlds? A place where both sides of the isle could actually work together for the good of the citizens instead of the good of the politicians, Wall Street, the entitlement takers, and large corporations?
Not really. Both sides can't even get along anymore when it comes to humdrum, practical things like water and infrastructure. The liberals absolutely decimated the agricultural economy of the south San Joaquin Valley in California for the sake of saving an "endangered" fish called the delta smelt. There's no reasoning with such people.
Texas has plenty of lunatic liberals, but for the most part they're not in charge. The feds have plans to change all that, so I'm all for acting fast.
It has a coast and many ports, plenty of agriculture, big cities with employment, lots of guns, oil deposits, woodlands, great people, and room to grow.
Saw one post with someone complaining about the Northeast needing to pull their bootstraps up (Hurricane Sandy relief I'm sure was inferred). I would suggest Texans take their boots off and put them in the stone soup along with their virgin Houston Oil as this is what they will be living on in the future, with the amount of drought they have been experiencing the last few years.
Texas and Hawaii are two states that were once recognized as independent nations, before choosing to join the Union. Their voluntary decision to join the Union did not come with an explicit agreement that they could never leave.
Texas made a decision long ago, about 1845 or so. Seems they considered some Federal help to fight MX. More important than surrender , which was going to happen.Mexico was fighting war on two fronts and were distracted for a while. That was not the only time they asked for Military help. In 1916 Pershing spent a lot of federal funds looking for Poncho Via, with little luck. ( a turning point in War, the first use of airplanes along with horseback) After 3 long years in the Sonora desert Pershing called it quits. Just a few examples where Texas needed the United States , they were so proud of the Lone Star flag yet were very unorganized bunch of Hillbillies from Tenn. and Ky.....Never could make it on their own, today is no different.
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