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Originally Posted by Hottentot
Agreed. I don't see a war coming either, but neither do I believe that the rest of the nations are all just going to say: "Oh, you don't want to play with your former nation anymore? Cool, welcome to the playground." Especially in the case of the United States. Unless it collapses completely and suddenly, it will still hold enough influence to have the rest of the world first see this as an internal matter and wait how it turns out.
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Yeah, there's not much chance Texas would/could really secede. First, you would have to get a large and clear majority of Texans to agree fervently for independence. And Texas is brimming with people who are recently from somewhere else. These new "Texans" are fine people, but they brought their own way of seeing things with them, from where the regions they vacated, and as hard as it is to believe, I know some of them think "let's leave State X and go to Texas because it has jobs/opportunity/cheap houses/lots of land/great bbq/ etc. but let's change Texas to be more like State X.
Right, thanks a lot. Texas, love it or leave
Don't change it.
And if we did agree for Independence, you would have to contend with the recent Mexican population wanting to take Texas back for themselves, as part of Mexico. And believe me, you talk to some (a lot) Mexicans, that's exactly what they have in mind.
But, if 80% of Texans wanted to break free of the US, the people in the US would have to agree, and even though many Americans don't have much good to say about us, they are not willing to let us go. Which makes no sense to me at all. If California wanted to split off, I would say more power to them, and wish them good luck.
Now, in 20 years, the way society is headed, there's a real chance Texas could secede,
if Texans wanted to, and that would be to deploy a Ghandi/Martin Luther King strategy of peaceful resistance. I could see it happening under those conditions. Hey, 30 years ago who could imagine homosexuals publicly clamoring for the right of marriage, and most people supporting it?
