Group in Texas wants a vote to break away from the union

[davidn3600]

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Emboldened by Brexit, U.S. secessionists in Texas are keen to adopt the campaign tactics used to sway the British vote for leaving the European Union and are demanding “Texit” comes next.

The citizen-driven vote in Britain can be a model for Texas, which was an independent country from 1836 to 1845, and its $1.6 trillion (£1.17 trillion) a year economy would be among the 10 largest in the world, said Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement.

“The Texas Nationalist Movement is formally calling on the Texas governor to support a similar vote for Texans,” the group said on Friday. The office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott was not immediately available for comment.

The group, which claims about a quarter million supporters, failed earlier this year to place a vote on secession on the November ballot but aims to relaunch its campaign for the next election cycle in 2018, buoyed by the British vote, Miller said.

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A 2014 Reuters/Ipsos poll showed nearly a quarter of Americans are open to their states leaving the union

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brexit-u-secessionists-hankering-texit-194835260.html

A few other states have small but growing secession movements. But that's an interesting poll. 25% of Americans want their state to leave the union. Makes you wonder if something divisive happens (like SCOTUS ruling against right to bear arms) you might see that suddenly bump up to a more frightening number.

[Ex Lurker]

1. A SCOTUS ruling against the traditional second amendment interpretation would turn a lot of people

in certain states in the south and west. Maybe not a majority, but a lot closer to 50-50. It's all academic of course, because secession was settled 150 years ago. But there are still issues people would be willing to fight over, and this is one of them.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. What would a war over secession look like?

Yahoos with camo and AR15s against the US military?

[Ex Lurker]

4. I don't think it would happen

But there would be a lot of unrest.

[FuzzyRabbit]

3. I thought Texas already tried to secede, 155 years ago.

It didn't work then. I wonder why they think it will work this time.

[Takket]

5. As economists everywhere predict disaster for the UK

To the point that even leave voters are asking themselves "what have we done?", brain dead secessionists in Texas look whist fully to the sky and say "that could be us."

[sir pball]

6. They can vote whatever they want, there is simply no unilateral secession allowed in the USA.

Texas v. White, the Union is permanent.

"When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States."

I suppose it leaves the door open for something like a Senate vote to allow them to leave, but there ain't no Article 50 here.

[L. Coyote]

7. They will only accomplish registering opponents and bringing them to the polls.

Oh, and they might turn Texas blue!