I’m not sure what you are responding to...I know that your historical facts are right because I am a Texan.
Quote attributable to you is as follows:
“I don’t think it is inevitable. If it occurred, however, to make secession worthwhile we would still have to deal with the “Blue Staters” in our midst, who would certainly begin the process of pushing the newly freed states back into the same old patterns of government and thinking. We would also have to scrub from our minds the collectivist ideas that the left has managed to insinuate into the heads of even most conservatives.”
Your insinuation is that Texans have been polluted by the Blue Staters to the extent that we are more likely to think in that mindset.
My comment was directed to the uniqueness of what I believe makes Texas great in that its heritage is much more ingrained to conservativeness and independence to the point that we don’t follow that mindset and pattern adopted by those other Blue States.
I am not impugning your own Texas background. Am simply observing that we here think in terms of our State compared to the federal government than most states do.