My understanding is that Texas entered into this mutated Union as a Sovereign Republic (a free ‘country’). If they want to secede from a “freely entered” union, they should be completely free to leave it. I wish more states would consider the same. This union is no more.
Texas has 3.2 million on Medicare and 4.5 million on Medicaid.
I doubt they’ll be seceding anytime soon.
“My understanding is that Texas entered into this mutated Union as a Sovereign Republic (a free ‘country’).”
I’m only aware of 2 states that entered the union as sovereign Republics - Texas and California.
>>My understanding is that Texas entered into this mutated Union as a Sovereign Republic (a free ‘country’). If they want to secede from a “freely entered” union, they should be completely free to leave it. <<
That is urban myth. Upon statehood any territory becomes the same as any other state. The War of Northern Aggression cemented that relationship.
Never understood this notion that a union needs to be perpetual. What for? Because it feels good to know that?
Just look at how much Europe changed over the past 800 years. Nations like Milan, Prussia, Argon, Wales, Yugoslavia, and the Kalmar Union no longer exist and the world got along just fine. One day Scotland, Venice, and Catalonia will be independent nations and the world still wont implode.
Hell, no one said N. America would become a battleground just because there are several new nations here. What would be the point of that?