Those are code words, Governor (Re: Perry on seccession)

[Gman]

Commentary
Those are code words, Governor
By RICK CASEY Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
April 16, 2009, 9:25PM


Poor Rick Perry! He got his knickers so bunched up while speaking at the Austin Tea Party on Wednesday he not only raised the possibility Texas would secede from the Union, he suggested that we gained the right to do so when we became a state in 1845.
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I have to think the professors at Texas A&M taught Perry better than that. The federal act that admitted Texas to the Union did not give the state permission to secede. We all know what happened when Texas did just that.

On the contrary, the law granting statehood provided that Texas could split itself into as many as five states.
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In 1921 the New York Times carried a lengthy interview with Texas Congressman John Nance Garner, seriously proposing that the state do just that. Garner was a political heavyweight. Already dean of the Texas delegation, he would become speaker of the House in 1931 and FDR’s first vice president a year later.

Garner argued that since Texas was twice as big as all of New England, it shouldn’t be outvoted in the Senate by that region by a margin of 12-2. He also argued that though New England was a third more populous than Texas, the Lone Star State, “the day is not far distant when Texas will be the third State in the Union, with New York and Pennsylvania in first and second place, respectively.” Garner repeated the call in 1930, when he was Democratic House leader.

But the language specifically authorizing Texas to divide and multiply was not in consideration of the state’s size. It was to provide an easy way to produce new slave states to balance the Senate if northern territories became free states.

Perry’s slender grasp on history was exposed during the angry speech he delivered minutes before his secession remark.

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6377858.html

Anyone that's ever taken a college level Texas history course should know this simple fact.

[rucky]

1. The purpose of this statement was not to have Texas secede...

but to re-kindle the secession MOVEMENT. It's always been there, whether falsely founded or not. This'll kick-up enough hell-raisers to scream and shout about anti-government something else. Same thing Glen Beck and company are all coordinating to accomplish.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Or anyone who is a sixth generation Texan

My husband went to technical school, not college, but HE knew all about this.

[baldguy]

3. Anyone who advocates secession - even in the smallest way - by definition hates America.