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In reply to the discussion: Texas Could Vote to Secede From U.S. in 2023 as GOP Pushes for Referendum [View all]Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)Congress could approve such a departure but it won't for obvious reasons. Texas ignoring the Constitution and federal authority will beget an entirely phenomenal level of legal and financial grief. During the 1950's and 1960's southern states fought federal oversight many times and lost every single case. It would be a mistake to assume that they could hold out now. Among other things they don't own all of the land in Texas, nor all of the mineral rights. Along with that detail there is the matter of Federal tax money spent in Texas for Texan citizens. Texas receives far more tax benefit than it pays in.
Unless we are willing to allow Texas to flaunt every federal law and agency oversight they cannot Secede no matter how the GOP rigs the plebiscite. That US citizens would be denied the right to representation in Congress is reason enough that it cannot happen.
Unless you foresee some way that everyone who voted against such a proposal were to leave the state...