I have argued for years that Kansas and Oklahoma should also secede, join Texas in a new entity, and call their nation ... what else?
We tried a STexit 20 years ago but the moochers in the Bronx need Staten Island money too much.
It is time. This country is falling apart. Go for it Texas. And then close your damned borders And deport non citizens!!
Texas did this once before, in 1861. That didn’t work out too well for Texas.
“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.” - Sam Houston
A friendly word of caution for the people of Texas:
If you do this, and nobody blames you if you do, you will have an immigration problem, and not from the South, if you get my meaning.
Just keep the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers intact!
You all mean Texit is Nexit?
Imagine what would happen if all the red states walked away and left the deeply indebted Democrat states holding the bag from you entire federal debt. They wouldn’t last a year.
Ñot exactly the same.
TX is more integral to the USA than Britain ever would be to the phony latter-day EU.
Not that I begrudge the try, but it’s a bit of a different situation to use as inspiration or encouragement.
The second or third article to pop up since the results of Brexit were announced last night. The authors must be reading us here at FR as this was off-handedly broached in a response or two during the running results post for the elction.
The media loves shining the spotlight on the TNM from time to time. Another Emmanuel Goldstein for the left to get worked up about.
Our peaceful revolt against the excesses of the left comes this November.
I have argued for years that Kansas and Oklahoma should also secede, join Texas in a new entity, and call their nation ... what else?
I am as fed up as anyone with the overbearing, corrupt, secretive, and ideologically-driven actions of the Federal government, especially this administration. But breaking up the union is an existential issue that any administration, Democrat or Republican, would have to treat with the utmost seriousness.
BREXIT took advantage of Article 50 in the EU Treaty providing a means of withdrawing from the voluntary union. This article, which is standard for such treaties, was incorporated in the treaty from the beginning because the treaty is an agreement between sovereign nations, not political subdivisions within a single nation.
There is no similar clause in the U. S. Constitution.
To make an orderly and peaceful departure for Texas possible, you first have to pass a proposed amendment to the Constitution allowing such an action and get 37 states to approve it. Good luck with that.
Alternatively, the last time some Americans made a really, really serious effort to withdraw from the “indivisible” nation without such a clause, you may recall there was a civil war that killed 600K soldiers, wounded millions more, and savaged nearly half of the states comprising the nation at the time.
I believe that Donald Trump's victory will bring on riots. But I think that Hildebeast could start another American civil war.
Hold a state referendum and see what kind of support they have.
I would move there so fast . . .
Hopefully Trump will be elected, and second, that he will have a major impact on ending the rampant corruption and dramatically shrinking the Federal Government.
If Trump loses, or if Trump is not effective in office, then it is clearly way past time for Texit.
In any state of our Union, you can find a handful of supporters for any notion under the sun. Undoubtedly, you can find a few people in Nebraska who would like to see the US sell Nebraska to the Chinese. The first important question is, how many dozen Texans want to cancel their American citizenship?
People who can't succeed in the United States won't succeed anywhere else.