What do you mean by Texas going nuclear. Succession?
In its constitution, Texas has the right to cut itself into, I think, 4 states. That however, was prior to the Civil War. Succession and the end of the Civil War may have changed that and it will never happen anyway.
Did you mean secession?
I live in Texas and that sounds just fine with me.
Problem will then be, liberals will want to move here and ruin the state.
Not that it hasn't been ruined already by ILLEGALS and the likes of Austin.
Texas atthe time of its admission retained the right to divide itself into up to 5 states. If it did that, probably 4 of them would be OK.
If memory serves, from when my children studies this ...
1) Texas gave up the right to secede when it was re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War. (However it had the right to do so prior to the Civil War/War Between the States)
2) Texas can split into five separate states by virtue of the document (Congress) when re-admitted to the Union.
3) However, there is Article IV, Section 3 of the US Constitution that says how existing States can divide. Constitutional challenges?
Many questions in my mind though.
Would it be politically viable to be five states in the Union instead of one? Possibly chaos would ensue with the division. Would the majority of Texas citizens vote for this? Possibly not, with the influx of liberals into the State since 1990’s. Each State would be roughly the size of ... Arkansas ... and where would the mineral rights be predominantly located? Within one new state.
Secession would be the best answer, becoming our own nation again. Then visitors would need passports and Congress could not control our assets. But, alas ... this is not to be.
Just me rambling.