Good day all. With the vote yesterday by the British to put the Great back into Great Britain, (and shaft the European Union), comes the question some Texans have been asking. Why not a Texit?
For decades, there has been a small group of Texans who have wanted to secede from the United States, (again), and restart the Republic of Texas. Now this group is thinking about having a Texit. Here are the details from The Guardian:
How closely is Daniel Miller tracking the news ahead of the referendum about whether Britain should leave the European Union? “Hourly!” he grins. The Sun’s recent editorial calling for the UK’s departure got him quite excited.
Miller, though, is not from London or Liverpool. He hails from Longview, Texas, and we are talking in a cafe in the bleakly industrial Gulf coast town of Port Arthur, some 5,000 miles from Westminster.
Culturally, too, we are a long way from Europe. Heck, we are even a long way from Dallas. But the referendum matters deeply to Miller and like-minded Texans. As the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which wants Texas to secede from the United States, he is hoping for a Leave vote that he believes will ripple all the way from Austria to Austin.
“There are a lot of people asking, if Brexit why not Texit?” he says. “I do talk with some folks over there on a pretty regular basis that are involved in Ukip and the Conservative party.”
Texas, after they defeated Santa Anna, gained their independence and for about 10 years, were a separate nation. During the Civil War, they joined the Confederacy, which turned out to be a really bad idea. Ever since then, there have been people talking about leaving the Union.
A not very well known fact is that the Texas electrical grid, (ERCOT), is designed so they can cut it from the rest of the United States at any time. Kind of makes you wonder what they were thinking when they set it up. Miller is saying that the arguments for Texas independence aren’t that different from Britain’s desire to tell the Europeans to go pound sand.
The arguments are fundamentally identical, he insists. “You could take ‘Britain’ out and replace it with ‘Texas’. You could take ‘EU’ out and replace it with ‘US’. You could take ‘Brussels’ out and replace it with ‘Washington DC’. You could give you guys a nice Texas drawl and no one would know any different. So much of it is exactly the same.”
While I doubt that the Texans will decide to wave good bye to Washington, I do understand why more than a few people like to talk about it. An independent Texas would probably do a lot better economically if they didn’t have to deal with the stuttering bureaucratic incompetence and dead hand of Federal regulations we’re all saddled with.
The TNM, meanwhile, seeks secession through political avenues and calls for the people of Texas to decide via a referendum. Miller claims that the group has 260,000 supporters. It has fans in Russia among mischief-makers who would relish the break-up of the United States.
Yeah, no doubt. I would love to see Putin try and “Mess with Texas.”
It also has advocates in the Texas Republican party, even though removing one of the biggest and most reliably red states from the US would make it far easier for the Democrats to win presidential elections.
And the Democrats would pretty much kill the remaining United States with their plans to end the Constitutional Republic. Of course, they would also run out of other people’s money in very short order trying to support their ideas of a “Fair” society.
Jeff Sadighi, a TNM backer, wants “Texas solutions” on hot-button issues such as gun rights, marriage equality and, perhaps above all, immigration and border control. “The bottom line is, the federal government due to their legal structures can only offer one size fits all solutions,” the 54-year-old says. “People in Massachusetts aren’t going to approach challenges the same way we are.”
People in Massachusetts are basically dead opposite in how these issues should be dealt with. On border control, they’re against it. Immigration? Legalize the illegals. Guns? Confiscate them now!
What would the country of Texas be like? “I don’t think we’ll have checkpoints at the border with Louisiana,” Miller deadpans. “Trump may have to move his wall a little further north.”
Actually, I think if Trump wins, the chances of a “Texit” plummet.
On the other hand, a Cankles win, with her raging paranoia, total incompetence and utter corruption, would definitely push more people into looking at “Texit.”
“At a cultural and spiritual level there are a lot of similarities. A fiercely independent spirit. Keep calm and carry on. The stoicism. There’s a sense that when you’re pushed, you don’t just crumple like yesterday’s newspaper, you stand up for what you believe in,” he says. “We are easygoing, we are friendly, but when our core values and principles are threatened, we don’t take kindly to it.”
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind moving down to Texas. The only thing holding me here now is the Anger Central Primary Dwelling, finding a job and a lack of contacts in the “Land of the Best BBQ in the World!” If Texas did pull out, I’d emigrate to the Republic as fast as I could, even if it meant abandoning the Primary Dwelling.
I also think that if Texas bailed out, several other states might decide to join them. Perhaps Oklahoma? Looking at old maps, I think a fair part of Oklahoma was part of the old Texas Republic. The only issue may be the Moonbats in San Antonio. However, I suspect that the rest of Texas will just build a wall around them and leave them be.
Thatisall
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