I look foward to living and thriving in the former and future Republic of Texas.
Texas is unique, in that it was an independent country that chose to join the Federal Union, later seceded, and was forcibly brought back into the Union, where it was never fully comfortable with being. A second secession would only confirm the reasons for the first secession (which had very little to do with slavery, but a great deal to do with States’ Rights, as delineated in the Tenth Amendment).
In 1861, slavery was legal in parts of the United States, not legal in others. If somehow, a slave escaped to one of the “free states”, the question of property rights came up, and the freedom thus gained was uncertain at best. Could a citizen of one of the “slavery permitted” states legally reclaim his property in another state, and how did the courts look at that claim?
The issue was not satisfactorily resolved until the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments.
I am thriving in it now but would do a whole lot better if we did not have the damn free loaders dragging us down.
I will do all I can do to keep America free but if it comes down to the freeloaders and The Republic of Texas, I choose Texas.
Secede now and send the freeloaders north and south of the border....