[TigersEye]

Didn’t almost half of all Texans who vote vote Democrat in the last three Presidential elections? That was true in every other state.

[central_va]

That doesn't translate to a armed militia in the event of a secession, does it? A third of the citizenry of the Colonies were loyalists who, for the most part sat out the revolutionary war.

If you woke up in the morning and the federal govt. was gone, would you notice? The birds would still be chirping, the sky would be blue (to quote dear reader).