Some may. Texas does not.
As Sam Houston is often credited as saying: “The United States needs Texas. Texas does not need the United States.” As a practical matter, we are self-sufficient in most things and for what we don’t have we’ve got several large world class ports to trans-ship from and to.
As Sam Houston is often credited as saying: “The United States needs Texas.
He was wrong. There is no way that you could afford to pay the United States enough money for all the military bases alone for you to survive. It would be cost prohibited to have to pay for those federal bases.