I was born and raised in Texas, but it has been several years since I have been back. Of course, I still have friends on Facebook and I am never amazed at the postings I see, but then I saw this, this morning!
and, then I read some of the comments that followed:
Morning, Texans!
We all want Texas to become independent from the country America has turned into. We have little to do with this democratic swamp. And we are gonna fight for our independence!
and, these economic analyses:
Would be nice. We have 30% refinery capacity ( I being conservative), 30% oil production, same for military hardware. Problem is, when we joined the U.S., we 'gave up' that option. No to say it still isn't possible, with current administration
There will be none. Texas will only benefit since the money our state generates is actually allocated to feed the financially irresponsible states. Right, as of now, your taxes are being spent on supporting some blue states. If we secede, we'll be free to spend our money the way WE TEXANS want.
There's actually a Texas Nationalist Group that has already formed, which claims 200,000 members, and is actively soliciting signatures for a petition to place a Secession Referendum on the next Republican primary ballot in Texas. Leaders recognize that the Referendum is non-binding, and that there is a legal argument that Texas' right to secede was rescinded following the Civil War. Of course, the Civil War did not end a lot of disputes in the United States of America.
Texas Tribune, September 15, 2015
Even if the Texas Nationalist Movement gets enough signatures, such a vote would be little more than symbolic. Academics agree that Texas cannot secede from the United States, and point to a post-Civil War Supreme Court ruling, Texas v. White, as evidence.
A Texas secession could be on the GOP primary ballot next March, according to a report by PJ Media. The Texas Nationalist Movement is pushing to have the state secede from the Union, a feat that would take quite a miracle.
Apparently, a petition is circulating around in attempt to get a non-binding vote onto the GOP primary ballot over whether “the state of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation,” as reported by The Texas Tribune. Reportedly, 75,000 signatures from registered voters are needed by December 1; this is over and above the 66,894 that the Texas Secretary of State’s office says the group “needs to get the language on the ballot.”
Texas Secession To Be On GOP Primary Ballot?
GOP Party leaders are trying to discourage the extreme right wingers! Now, that's really something new, isn't it.
The Republican Party of Texas sees efforts by the secessionists as futile. Texas GOP communications director, Aaron Whitehead, shared that the Republican party isn’t keen on outside groups attempting to modify the party ballot. He says that the Republican party decides what goes on the ballot, and it’s their preference that it remains as such.
It seems that none of the Right wingers who are so excited to move Texas toward Secession, ever consider Austin, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and the other liberal enclaves, otherwise known as the "major cities" of Texas, and the minority populations which might not be so happy about losing the protections of the United States Constitution and the Federal Government.
More below the little Orange Squiggle.
There is a another Website, Texas Secede:
Texas Secede
The Texas Secede Website has loads of information for the Secession inclined, including a number of answers to Frequently Asked Questions, such as:
Q: Doesn't the Texas Constitution reserve the right of Texas to secede? [BACK TO TOP]
A:
This heavily popularized bit of Texas folklore finds no corroboration where it counts: No such provision is found in the current Texas Constitution[1] (adopted in 1876) or the terms of annexation.[2] However, it does state (in Article 1, Section 1) that "Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States..." (note that it does not state "...subject to the President of the United States..." or "...subject to the Congress of the United States..." or "...subject to the collective will of one or more of the other States...")
and, also includes a discussion of the "potential benefits to Texas from Secession"
Q: How would Texas—and Texans—benefit from secession?
A: In many ways. Over the past century-and-a-half the United States government has awarded itself ever more power (but not the lawful authority) to meddle with the lives, liberty, and property of the People of Texas (as well as those of the other States).
Sapping Texans' wealth into a myriad of bureaucratic, socialist schemes both in the U.S. and abroad, the bipartisan despots in Washington persist in expanding the federal debt and budget deficits every year. Texans would indeed gain much by reclaiming control of their State, their property, their liberty, and their very lives, by refusing to participate further in the fraud perpetrated by the Washington politicians and bureaucrats.
The Huffington Post has covered the Texas Secession Movement with several different articles. Of course, Governor Oooops Perry discussed the possibility of secession in the 2012 election cycle before removing himself from consideration. But, more recently, it seems that the issue has continued to gain momentum within the state. More than 125,000 people signed a White House petition asking the President to address the concern of Texas secession. In an article, in July Huffington Post discussed Ten things that the United States would lose if Texas did secede.
10 Things We'd Lose If Texas Actually Seceded
The United States would drastically improve the national healthcare, treatment of women, treatment of women. We would lose out on the number of executions, and we would lose those two great United States senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.
Another concern that I have would be if we had a Right wing dominated Texas on the Southern border of the United States. I don't think that Texas ever will, ever could or would secede, but if it did, with the type of people who dominate Texas politics it would present a real threat to world security.