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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 10 years, 9 months ago
    I wonder what would happen if they just did it? Withhold all their state tax payments, recall or otherwise get rid of their state reps and just make the declaration. Interesting that more and more counties are taking this road. If enough do it it will be difficult to stop.
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  • Posted by $ johnrobert2 10 years, 9 months ago
    Texas has the legal right to secede, without anyone's permission. This right was afforded them when they joined the union as a republic in 1844. Texas also has the right to form its own army and navy, I guess, by extension, is own air force. Believe me, there have been a lot of rumblings in that direction for some time now.
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    • Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 9 months ago
      What about individual counties?

      What is reported in the article is that this county wants to leave California, per se, and become a new state.
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      • Posted by $ johnrobert2 10 years, 9 months ago
        Based on what I know about certain areas of Texas (and living here lets me have a diffident certainty), at least 80-85% of the state would go. Austin, Houston, possibly San Antonio, parts of Dallas and Ft Worth would favor the status quo. The Rio Grande Valley would probably opt to become a part of Mexico. It almost is anyway. IMHO, the greater part of East Texas, Central Texas, North Texas, Panhandle and West Texas would go. So, our problem is a bit different. We would have individual counties willing to stay rather than secede.
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          Posted by $ MikeMarotta 10 years, 9 months ago
          I don't know where you live, pardner, but here in the People's Republic of Austin, we are loyal to the United States of America. This is a liberal town, a university town, Democrat Party town. Sure, we have a lot of Ron Paul bumper stickers here. Sure, Alec Jones' Infowars comes from here. That is part of the mix. No way we want to jeopardize that. We like being Americans.

          Houston? Sure, I mean aside from NASA, Houston is ignorant, redneck, fascist. Dallas? Big D is more like Hot-lanta than it is like El Paso or even Fort Worth up the road.

          What I am saying, pardner is that you are guilty of confirmation bias. You see the facts that support your intended conclusion.
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          • Posted by $ johnrobert2 10 years, 9 months ago
            I guess we can agree to disagree. Your categorization as the People's Republic of Austin is telling. As to your generalization of the citizens of Houston as 'ignorant, redneck, fascist' tends to make me think you also may suffer from a myopic bias which lends itself to some mild vituperation. And if you would care to check those areas which I named for a proclivity to 'cling to God and their guns' (as one wag put it), you might find a pronounced desire for libertarianism. All in all, I'd say we probably won't agree on much but I'd still like you anyway. Oh, as to where I live, I live near Corpus, grew up in the RGV, lived in Irving and near Athens. Spent many years traveling the globe as a guest of Uncle Sam, halfway around the world, each way ( twice), including Viet Nam. Been an itinerant farm worker, short order cook, front line municipal worker, unemployed more times than I like. BA from UT-PA, Masters from UT-A in Public Administration, city administrator three times.
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    Posted by $ MikeMarotta 10 years, 9 months ago
    "Texas still operates under the 1876 constitution today. Because of its tight restrictions, it has had to be amended hundreds of times and is now considered to be one of the most disorganized and confusing of all state constitutions. In 1974, a constitutional convention met with much fanfare to draft a modern document. The convention ended in failure, and no attempt has been made since to replace the much-amended old warhorse."
    According the Treasurer of the State of Texas
    https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/co...

    Moveover, if you check Snopes.Com the famous URBAN LEGENDS website, you will find that Texas will always be Texas, not five states.
    http://www.snopes.com/history/american/t...
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