It's time to secede!
Posted on 09/19/2009 5:33:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Ever since Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax crowd (or swastika-carrying, tea-bagging group of nutjobs, depending on your political persuasion) in April, Texas secession has become a popular topic.
While I will admit to having bought a “secede” bumper sticker this summer, I can honestly say there was little to no significant conviction behind my purchase, as it never actually made it to my truck window. In reality, I simply enjoy yelling “secede” at parties or football games. You should try it — the response from people in close proximity is always interesting, particularly at parties.
But could Texas really make it on its own? The state’s detractors are quick to note that Texas ranks near the bottom in education and other important areas. But if you look at the statistics, Texas has been burgeoning in recent years, despite the rest of the country’s troubles.
If Texas were a country, it would theoretically have the 12th largest gross domestic product in the world, ahead of countries as Russia, India and Mexico.
Furthermore, if Texas were a sovereign nation, it would be the fifth-largest oil producer in the world.
Texas’ economy also seems sturdy enough to stand alone, as its business-friendly policies have attracted more Fortune 500 companies to Texas than other state. Texas has also been the United States’ No. 1 exporting state for six years running, 1.2 million jobs have been created in the last five years and, in last year, half of all the jobs created in the U.S. came from Texas.
We all know about Texas’ size. The state extends across 267,339 square miles, or 7.4 percent, of the nation’s total area — which would make Texas the 10th-largest country in the world. I mean, come on, the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is bigger than Manhattan.
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It's time to secede!
It's time to secede!
If any state(s) seceeded, how many liberals would commit suicide?
Really!?! I was quite unaware of that -- if true. The Texans I've known seemed pretty well educated.
The Confederate Flag is not going to help your case. Use the Lone Star.
They wouldn't. They'd threaten (promise) to go somewhere else, but they'll stay put and in short order start trying to pervert the newly independent state.
THAT is One Great Photo!!!!
“THAT is One Great Photo!!!!”
You mean the vicious collection of “Brownshirts” Nancy deLousy has been warning folks about?
What's wrong with the Confederate Flag? It's a great states' right symbol. This part of Carolina, many people proudly wave the battle flag.
If it is damaging to my case, the Admin Moderator can remove the Confederate Flag pics, LOL.
Instead of their worthless promises, how about they (libs) are shown the border at the end of a few assault rifles, heavy MGs, APCs, and a tank or two? Maybe they would finally get the hint to be somewhere else.
SECEDE!!!!
That war was fought and lost. Need a new symbol.
Which symbol do you suggest?
Fly that “Battle Flag” proud.
Absolutely hemorrhaging irony in buckets, MinorityRepublican yells Secede and flies the Confederate Flag!
Is that where the origins of Alabama state flag came from?
It didn't work so well the first time it was tried, but.....
.....we learn from history...so we are not doomed to repeat it, as they say.
I heard Micheal Medved say on the radio that secession was not an option for Texas, as the Supreme Court would not allow it.
I blew a gasket. If Texas does pull away, it is PRECISELY because of the actions of the Supreme Court...not Congress and not the President, but the Supreme Court. That court is supposed to keep Congress tied to the Constitution...and that is the rut of the problem.
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Revolutionary Flags
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We have our own flag, the Lone Star Flag. Even during the Civil War, Texans were not greatly enamored of Jeff Davis’ government, even though some of Lee’s toughest hitting units were Texans. Years ago, McKinley Kanor speculated on how things would have happened if the South had won its independence, Many in Texas would have gone it alone. While we were independent Britain and France each came around offering support. With the Union broken, they would surely have come back to gain influence.
Nam Vet
You don’t know until you try. Revolutions are not fought, much less won, by pragmatists.
Brown shirts, black & white faces..... yah. I think the photo just about says it all.
Demographics aren’t on your side in Texas
In 1 or 2 more elections Texas will go permanently blue.
If Texas secedes it will be seceding back to Mexico
Not with the new influx of constituionalists, conservatives, libertarians, and other fed up Patriotic (Americans-Texans Emigre’) who would ensure that the mistakes of the past (USA-liberalism), and (The Confederacy-slavery and being invaded) do not occur again! (I was born in Texas, but haven’t lived there since 1980-81 (when I was a baby)!-for all it’s worth, I would have a greater claim on citizenship than many illigals who reside there now.
A few State Flags flew prior o the one we now fly,though on:
February 16, 1895, 76 years after being admitted to the Union, the Alabama Legislature authorized the “crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white” as its official flag in the Acts of Alabama. Reminiscent of the Confederate battle flag, it was designated that the crimson bars were not to be less than six inches broad and were to extend diagonally across the flag. Because Act 383 did not specify a particular format, the flag is sometimes depicted as a square and at other times depicted as a rectangle.
For 114 years the crimson cross has flown proudly over the state of Alabama.
Not under that flag......
I have a feeling Texas will know how to identify and deport illegals. Unlike our federal fools.
Thanks, but we have our own flag!
Bump for later.
Where was this picture taken? What was the event?
When it comes to succession, Sam Houston speaks for me.
If Texas(or Alaska) decided to secede, my family would move there in a heartbeat. I just hope they would have us. I’m sure there would be so many people wanting to move there, they will need to be selective when it comes to who they allow to move there. Both my wife and I are productive citizens, and we are both lifelong Dallas Cowboys fans. We also have plenty of hardware and know how to use it.
I am an American and will fight my fellow Texan brethren to the death to keep my great state part of the best country the world has ever known.
Which was pretty much the best argument against secession.
Confederacy wins. Texas secedes from the Confederacy. California secedes from the Union. So do the Pacific NW states, forming their own nation. The Middle West, led by former copperheads, secedes from the Union.
You could very easily have wound up with 6 to 10 countries carved out of the USA, or even more.
What are the chances they would have been able to exist in amity? How many wars over trade restrictions, borders, etc. would have followed?
In the 20th, who would have saved the world from the Kaiser, Hitler and Communism?
“To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country — the young men.”
“In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath [oath of loyalty to the Confederacy]. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.”
Yah. He speaks for me, too.
Native born only need apply. You can’t switch planes at DFW and become a Texan. If you weren’t born here, leave and apply for citizenship. We’ll get back to you with preference given to those born South of the old Mason Dixon. And we will require the LONG form birth certificate to prove residency.
I am a Patriot. I could never support the Cowboys. Or the Rangers. Seceed is you wish. I will carry on the battle here with my tri-corner hat and Red Sox.
There’s also the nullification option under the 10th amendment.
I noticed you used past tense, just the same. It is silly to contemplate, but I understand the sentiment. But Texans are just as guilty of letting the parties buy their votes with borrowed money for benefits and projects we wouldn’t pay for with our own money. It would be pretty chicken spoor to not go down with the ship.
HERE'S YOUR HOPE AND CHANGE!
how many liberals would commit suicide?
Probably not enough!
We can help ... like those suicide hotlines in Pakistan where they get excited and ask if you can drive a truck.
The Stars and Bars has a warm place in my heart, but it ain’t got anything to do with Texas secession.
SHERM, WE HAVE A WINNER!!!! Was it divine Providence that got us ready for the Soviets and their march toward world domination?
The two commies next door could just be driven over the edge if a seccession did occur. No one would miss them but they would still be voting dim though.
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