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Secession is a course of action that is time to seriously consider. Czechoslovakia is a good example of a nation dividing into two to the satisfaction of the people of both states. I do not wish to live in a Socialist country or one were all decisions about damn near everything is made in one city. I’m sure most people on Free Republic are like minded. However, there are many of our fellow citizens that truly want the Nanny state and are quite comfortable with having someone else direct their lives and would not like the rigors and responsibility of free and independent living. Nor or they comfortable living with a Constitutional government that prevents rapid and whimsical changes in government. It is best, therefore to consider dividing this country in two and allowing the people to settle in the one that best suits their disposition.

That is a thoughtful response.

But once the decisions are being made in Austin or Dallas or Houston, Texans may find themselves friendlier to the Nanny state.

That's how things have been in history: colonists throw out the mother country and end up with a government even more powerful than a foreign king could ever be.

The objection deep down may not be to government as such but to not being more fully self-governed.

You see this kind of thing in politics a lot.

The GOP didn't object to deficits and increasing debt when Republicans ran Congress and the White House.

Obama gets away with positions that Democrats would scream about in a Republican -- locking up suspected terrorists, wars overseas, opposition to gay marriage.

And Texans are a lot more opposed to big government when someone else is running it than when it's home grown.