We haven't had a Union since 1861 -- it's been yours, all yours, ever since. Or do we need to go over how all that walnut and mahogany paneling got into all those New York and New England businesses and residences, that you don't see nearly as much anywhere else, and especially not in old farmhouses?
And you wouldn't have much of a Texas today if not for our tax dollars sent south by your politicians. Show a little more gratitude for our hard work, will ya?
What do you mean, your politicians? Yankee legislators fought Texas's admission to the Union tooth and nail -- John Quincy Adams led the fight personally, and he fought like hell against John Calhoun's initiatives to assume Texas's debts in order to put some critically-needed specie into the Texas "economy". When Texas was hard up against it, you and yours begrudged her the first nickel, and every one after. You fought her admission to the last ditch. Then you stiffed Texas's debt owners in 1869, in Texas vs. White, because it was a political case about the Civil War, and a chance to preach Yankee "Union" doctrine from a bench full of Lincoln appointees, led by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Abe's Treasury Secretary and a first-rate Yankee thumbscrew. Don't tell me about gratitude. We still owe you a bunch of hard licks for that first go-round in the 1840's, when you didn't want Texas trash in the Union and didn't want to defend Texas's boundaries against Mexican claims. That's not even including any accounting for what you did in the Civil War. Oh, and by the way -- Texas never formally surrendered, and her troops took their weapons and their colors home with them. And that's why all your sorry Yankee neighbors are all in favor of gun control!