[jmacusa]

Texas did this once before, in 1861. That didn’t work out too well for Texas.

[rockrr]

Maybe it was the company they were keeping at the time ;’}

[Trump20162020]

Right, the U.S. government responded with threats and violence, rather than simply letting one side that voted to leave actually leave.

If Texas voted for a "texit" today, the federal government would respond by sicing the U.S. Army on them.

[Glad2bnuts]

Why didn’t it work out well? Texas is still a Republic and can leave the Union with no legal repurcussions at all. Now that is not to say that judges and officials can’t make a mess of things. For that matter, I would like to see the entire 50 States break up the federal government, and if they wish to reinstitute a new compact with stronger Constitutional protections, term limits and the death penalty for bribing, and taking bribes for a public servant.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Texas has nuclear weapons now.

DC won’t do squat and no other state will send their national guardsman to fight Texas troops.

[sergeantdave]

“Texas did this once before, in 1861. That didn’t work out too well for Texas.”

And we did it before that in 1776. That worked out very well.