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To: TigerClaws

Good question, what would happen if a state wanted to secede from the union?

We know our civil war history. Military force was used to keep the union together back then. Would military force be used today, if a state voted to secede? Would a peaceable agreement be worked out, to allow a state to leave the union?

What about the American citizenship of Texas residents? Would that citizenship be revoked?

Just some questions I wonder about. Nobody knows what would happen nowadays if states wanted to leave the union.


5 posted on 07/06/2022 8:52:07 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Texas was a Republic - a separate country.

When admitted to the Union they reserved the right to Texit.

So we can go when we want.


8 posted on 07/06/2022 8:55:01 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I like the idea but probably the details would be tough.

I have a friend who literally just moved this week from Portland, OR to the Houston area (Woodforest). She can’t believe how friendly everyone is and is so happy!

Wish I could get some of my family to leave the left coast...


11 posted on 07/06/2022 8:57:55 PM PDT by Aria
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Military force was used to keep the union together back then.”

Back then. Magic 2 words. with a woke military whose latest policy is gender pronouns and low morale, I have more than an idea who wins this time..


12 posted on 07/06/2022 8:58:36 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Lincoln = Biden ?

gosh, maybe?
41 posted on 07/07/2022 12:29:33 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If they leave the union, then they will be a separate national ‘entity’.

They will need to raise their OWN taxes, their OWN army, their OWN currency, create their OWN foreign diplomacy, develop their OWN allies, and appoint their OWN diplomats....and do everything a nation does to protect it's citizens ... they will have to support and defend themselves, on their OWN, without US involvement.

72 posted on 07/07/2022 5:48:56 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Among MANY other questions, yours are the most basic that, first of all, Require answers BEFORE filling any state Republican Party “plank” with hayseed and chicken feathers thinking.

Typically, even an 5 year old contemplates whether there’s water in the pool, before jumping.


87 posted on 07/07/2022 7:38:30 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Publik Skules/Academia -> The Farm team for more Marxists runnimcoming. Infinitum.)
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