My wife an in-laws are all native Californians that moved to Texas for the same reasons that motivated you to leave. They call themselves refugees. My in-laws are all from Marin county thought they eventually moved to L.A. They picked up their businesses and left. They miss their state too. I don’t blame them. It’s beautiful with tremendous resources. But it ‘lost’ and beyond the point-of-no-return. Texas is almost to that point. Demographics is destiny.
To your first point; Texas CAN split into a total of five states. Texas does NOT have the ‘right’ to secede. If secession were to happen, it would not happen smoothly and would be solved politically.
If it is to happen, it would have to happen very fast with it being driven by conservative movement. Soon, conservatives will be a minority here and any secession that happened further in the future would likely be very different reasons and driven by a different ideology than what American/Texas conservatives would support. Just my two cents.
*would NOT be solved politically
You got that right. Pains me to say it but we're headed to the same trash bin as everybody else. Might be at a Sunday drive in the country pace but there's no question as to the direction.
Frankly with the changes I've seen I'd say it's more of a case of us being one of the healthier horses in the glue factory.