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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<\/a>:<\/p>\n How closely is Daniel Miller tracking the news ahead of the referendum about whether Britain should leave the European Union? \u201cHourly!\u201d he grins. The Sun\u2019s recent editorial calling for the UK\u2019s departure got him quite excited. <\/b><\/p>\n Miller, though, is not from London or Liverpool. He hails from Longview, Texas<\/a>, and we are talking in a cafe in the bleakly industrial Gulf coast town of Port Arthur, some 5,000 miles from Westminster. <\/b><\/p>\n 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. <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cThere are a lot of people asking, if Brexit why not Texit?\u201d he says. \u201cI do talk with some folks over there on a pretty regular basis that are involved in Ukip and the Conservative party.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t that different from Britain\u2019s desire to tell the Europeans to go pound sand.<\/p>\n The arguments are fundamentally identical, he insists. \u201cYou could take \u2018Britain\u2019 out and replace it with \u2018Texas\u2019. You could take \u2018EU\u2019 out and replace it with \u2018US\u2019. You could take \u2018Brussels\u2019 out and replace it with \u2018Washington DC\u2019. You could give you guys a nice Texas drawl and no one would know any different. So much of it is exactly the same.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n 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\u2019t have to deal with the stuttering bureaucratic incompetence and dead hand of Federal regulations we\u2019re all saddled with.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> among mischief-makers who would relish the break-up of the United States. <\/b><\/p>\n Yeah, no doubt. I would love to see Putin try and \u201cMess with Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n 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.<\/b><\/p>\n And the Democrats would pretty much kill the remaining United States with their plans to end the Constitutional Republic<\/a>. Of course, they would also run out of other people\u2019s money in very short order trying to support their ideas of a \u201cFair\u201d society.<\/p>\n Jeff Sadighi, a TNM backer, wants \u201cTexas solutions\u201d on hot-button issues such as gun rights, marriage equality and, perhaps above all, immigration and border control. \u201cThe bottom line is, the federal government due to their legal structures can only offer one size fits all solutions,\u201d the 54-year-old says. \u201cPeople in Massachusetts aren\u2019t going to approach challenges the same way we are.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n People in Massachusetts are basically dead opposite in how these issues should be dealt with. On border control, they\u2019re against it. Immigration? Legalize the illegals. Guns? Confiscate them now!<\/p>\n What would the country of Texas be like? \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ll have checkpoints at the border with Louisiana,\u201d Miller deadpans. \u201cTrump may have to move his wall a little further north.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n Actually, I think if Trump wins, the chances of a \u201cTexit\u201d plummet.<\/p>\n