okay, so we wait 5/10 years, build the Texas economy and military to its peak, and then we take the rest of the country back.
It might be bloodless, but I would doubt it.
It might actually be bloodless if we play our cards right.
After we get all the business people, all the brilliant minds, all we need to do is wait for them to BEG us to reunite and send our leaders into the government.
Then we set our terms and reunite. Then we diplomatically and politically entrench ourselves.