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Old 11-21-2012, 09:40 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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No, Texas needs to stick together. That's what makes us so great. There's too much economic power when the Texaplex cities play as a team.
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Old 11-25-2012, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Greenville, Delaware
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While I'm no advocate of any changes to the current geopolitical status of Texas, it might be more interesting to think outside the box entirely. To use the example of a different state, Hawaii, there have been proposals to restore the Hawaiian monarchy, which was illegally overthrown by a coup d'etat on behalf of the Dole Pineapple Company. Now, restoration of the monarchy could only be achieved through some creative solution, since the federal Constitution guarantees to each state a republican form of government. However, it is conceivable that a monarchy could function in a ceremonial role, perhaps with some minimal residual powers, in a US state, as long as the common forms of representative democracy were kept intact (after all, that's how constitutional monarchies function).

Likewise, in the case of Texas, the question might arise: would it be possible to expand the state's political influence by dividing into separate states, yet maintain some sort of cohesive identity by establishing a sort of union-within-the-Union amongst the resulting Texas statelets? A sort of Texas EU, perhaps.

The state's deriving from Texas might, for example, maintain a common university system, or at least collectively maintain the UT and A&M systems. One could imagine all sorts of other inter-Texan collective initiatives. They might also maintain similar cultural symbols, such as slight variations of the Lone Star Flag (sort of like the flags of the constituent republics of the old USSR). They would no doubt maintain the same peculiar state holidays, such as Texas Independece Day and San Jacinto Day.

However, as I've pointed out previously, it seems very unlikely that Congress would consent to the admission of new states deriving from the present territory of Texas, save possibly for some grand political compromise that involved DC statehood, possible admission of Puerto Rico (assuming the population there actually want it), and other far-flung US territories (depending on how many left-leaning new states would be needed to provide a political balance to the creation of new right-leaning Senate seats representing states derived from Texas; this was historically done in the admission of new states prior to the Civil War, beginning with slaveholding KY and free-state VT in 1790).
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Old 11-26-2012, 05:14 PM
 
Location: DFW area
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I think he sums it up nicely!


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