Uhhh, Guys, About That Yankee Liberal "Let's LET Texas Secede" Joke...

[Pamela Troy]

A lot of liberals like to say that it’s okay with them if Texas secedes. Good riddance! they declare. We can do without that hatchery of bigots and redneck authoritarians. Who needs it?

I’m going to be charitable here and assume that these liberals are saying this unthinkingly, as a “joke.” Not a very good joke, I’ll grant you – a joke kind of like what Ann Coulter says when she thinks she’s being funny -- but a joke nevertheless.

Because examining why so many Freepers and other right-wing knuckle-draggers want Texas to secede provides the very reason why so many of us should oppose it. They want Texas to secede because they want to have the “freedom” to mistreat Americans they dislike – Texas liberals, black Texans who vote Democratic, Hispanics, gays, the poor, etc. They want to live in a place where political freedom as we know it simply doesn’t exist, where their neighbors and fellow citizens are carefully vetted to only include those who hold a very specific and narrow set of opinions.

From Free Republic Threads on Texas Secession:

If Perry promises to kick all the Libs out.. it’s a done deal.. I’m there!

”If we did secede, we would have to expel all the liberals to succeed.”

A more harsh treatment might be more in order.

We have a lot of Democrat free-loaders in the cities now. I would love to see a line of buses to transport out the people who don't believe in states' rights.

Just remember this liberal media..You are any of your ilk will not be allowed in our country..no Terrorist, no Commies, no Muslims..We won't give these so called special interest groups a chance. we need to let every one know what will be ahead of them if they decide to stay on the outside....If you want to be a citizen of this state you all of you will have to pass a test..and a back ground check..

Hopefully Texas would become aggressively anti-Leftist and not beat around the 'Bush' so to speak and just flat out - outlaw any sort of LeftWingNut-ism whatsoever. Its time to just put a stop to the advance of Marxism. Anyone who didn’t like it - gets dumped on the border or put on a raft and just be glad they weren’t shot for being an enemy agent.

Why do you think Uncle Ted moved here. And Chuck Norris. And the thousands from the upper mid west in the late 70’s. And the thousands from Kalifornia in the 90’s. And the thousands from Mexico for the last 20 years. And the hundreds who left New Orleans after Katrina. Right to work state. No state income tax. Decent weather. Lots of folks like those at the tea party in San Antonio on Fox. Just don’t bring your goofy liberal ideas down here to infect our state. Austin is our liberal blight. Leave the rest of the state alone.
4th generation Texan.

I believe that if we do that no one should just be able to “move” to Texas. Too dangerous. You guys should have no problems getting citizenship but visas should be issued to people who would have the best interests of a conservative Texas and anyone coming in should be able to show ability to support themselves or have a sponsor...meaning Texans that will help the immigrant get set up...no public housing, government assistance, free health care etc. JAT What do yall think?

I can almost guarantee the social programs would stop overnight, and anyone who didn’t like it would be dropped off at the east/west borders - on the other side of the wall.

We in Texas must take care to properly indoctrinate our new arrivals and to use what ever tactics necessary to convert them to being Texans or convert them to being gone. Don’t let the same thing to Txas happen, which has happened to Florida, Arizona and Nevada, where the local culture was overrun by “Damn Yankee” “Damn Mexican” or “Damn Californian” immigrants, who are trying to convert the states to Liberal Blue.

Wonderful idea, let us Texans declare war against the rest of the US, and gradually take back our country, one state at a time, and we can let the bluest of the blue to last, while they starve.

”What are you going to do with Austin? ;-) "

Fumigate it, and what does survive, gets put on a work farm...

Gas ‘em to death or stick them in labor camps… Hmmmm… I’ve heard that somewhere before…

We need to keep up the pressure. The Libs are LIVID...and some may even be afraid of We the People who believe in the Constitution as written by our Founding Fathers...including the 9th and 10th Amendments!!! What a good warm feeling that gives me!
Keep Your Powder Dry Patriots!!!

Actual secession is, of course, highly unlikely. What’s disturbing, however, is the level of personal contumely that is driving many members of the right to advocate for it. They are buying up guns. They are talking about their dreams of a liberal-free state. They are speaking of their fellow Americans, including the president, as their enemies.

There’s a lot of room here, well short of of secession, for liberals in Texas, or even just perceived liberals, to be targeted for vandalism, threats, even actual assaults.

So guys, please, don’t wish – even as a joke – for Texas to secede. You may not realize this, but saying that secession is all right with you is saying it’s all right with you that Americans be uprooted, assaulted, or otherwise abused for the “offense” of being a liberal in a predominantly conservative state.

That may seem to like an abstraction to progressives living outside Texas and the south. It may sound laughable, like something that could never happen.

But to liberals living there, especially those who remember the 1960s, it’s not an especially remote possibility.