If Texas does secede, we should support letting the Lone Star "blue zones" secede FROM Texas.

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24. Texas is no more secessionist than, say, Alaska. Or Rhode Island.

It's a movement no more popular than the Reconquista movement. There hasn’t been any recent polling, but a 2009 Rasmussen Reports survey found that 31 percent of Texans say the state has a right to secede but just 18 percent of Texans would vote to secede from the U.S. if given a choice. Three-fourths of Texas citizens say they oppose secession.

For context: that 18 percent figure is identical to the percentage of Americans who say they favor allowing their state or region to secede from the nation, according to a 2008 Zogby poll. So Texas is no more secessionist than, say, Alaska. Or Rhode Island.


Additionally, a lot of half-witted and under-educated people believe the urban-myth that TX can secede with impunity; however Texas has no more right to secede than any other state-- it can divide itself into five states should it choose to do so, but that's irrelevant to the idiotic premise held by Texas legislators and US citizens alike that TX has some special right to become an independent nation-state.