Texas to secede from USA - what if..

[VinniE30]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-texas-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/BmdWCP8B

Many of you have probably heard of this recently.
Sure we know it's not going to happen but lets talk about it anyway. I think they have some good points.:p

[gwb72tii]

i'd consider relocating my business there

[slammin.e28]

This isn't news, this is history!

They won't, but if it were to happen, they'd come grovelling back to the Union just like when they first became a state.

[herbivor]

That would be awesome. But California would need to do the same thing to bring balance to the universe.

[CorvallisBMW]

I think we should sell Texas to Mexico and use the profits to pay off the national debt. srsly.

[threlevenguy]

I just moved to Texas in September and WOW..what's a recession?

[iamsam]

I don't get it. So the petition needs 25k signers? That is 0.009% of the population of Texas.

[VinniE30]

I don't get it. So the petition needs 25k signers? That is 0.009% of the population of Texas.

It needs 25k to get a response from the gov. Just like any other petition on the site. Obviously that doesn't mean much, just a response, wither you like the response or not.

[slammin.e28]

I don't get it. So the petition needs 25k signers? That is 0.009% of the population of Texas.

Needs 25k in a period of 30 days. They got 25k and counting in unser 3 days.

[Swanny]

Well feel free and secede. Texas would have to pay back all the federal infrastructure so boooom thats a chunk out of out national debt. Immigration would probably be reduced to the US because they'll just STAY in Texas. It'll be a nice little buffer. And there goes a huge chunk of republican electoral college votes.
Win, win, win...

[318isbmw]

Texas always threatens to succeed. Quit talking and do it, or quit bringing it up. No one cares about the threat of leaving anymore.

[Kershaw]

I was emailed this yesterday. Go ahead Texas and gtfo.
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"Dear Red States

We're ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics and we've decided we're leaving.

We in California intend to form our own country and we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware that includes New York, Hawaii, Oregon,
Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and the rest of the Northeast.

We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation and especially
to the people of the new country of The Enlightened States of America

(E.S.A).

To sum up briefly:

You get Texas , Oklahoma and all the slave states.

We get stem cell research and the best beaches.

We get Andrew Cuomo and Elizabeth Warren. You get Bobby Jindal and Todd Akin.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. You get those ignorant fools at Ole' Miss.

We get 85 percent of America 's venture capital and entrepreneurs.

You get Alabama .

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch
of single moms.

With the Blue States in hand we will have firm control of 80% of the
country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92%
of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines (you can
serve French wines at state dinners) 90% of all cheese, 90 percent of
the high tech industry, most of the US low sulfur coal, all living
redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States you will have to cope with 88% of all obese
Americans and their projected health care costs, 92% of all US
mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99%
of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush
Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed
by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death
penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that
Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards believe you
are people with higher morals then we lefties.

We're taking the good weed too. You can have that crap they grow in Mexico.

Sincerely,

A Citizen of the Enlightened States of America"

[DrLeadFoot]

Texas or BUST!

[Dozyproductions]

Everyone needs to stop seein things in Us vs Them scenarios. This inherent nature of division is what gets us to shitty, stupid shit like this.

[VinniE30]

Not sure why we're bringing california into this but cali has the biggest deficit of any of the 50 states, by far.
Texas would do better than cali economically as a stand alone country.