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In reply to the discussion: Texas GOP candidate: 4 liberal states should secede [View all]DissidentVoice
(813 posts)Not some half-assed "secession" like Quebec has threatened Canada with for almost 50 years...where they're "independent," but having a "customs and monetary union" with Canada, still having Canadian health care and having the Canadian military maintain its bases in Quebec.
Texas would have to know that independent means just that - you're on your own.
The military hardware at places like Fort Hood and Lackland AFB does not belong to you.
No more Social Security, no more Medicare, no more Federal funds for ANYTHING.
It is up to YOU to negotiate international relations...including with your former neighbours, who may not be well-disposed to grant you any sort of recognition, admittance to the UN, NATO, having other countries receive your ambassadors, or raising your own armed forces.
I think most logical, reasonable Texans would get the hell out long before that happened.
Personally, I don't think the Civil War ever really ended, and I don't think it ever will.
Maybe a peaceful referendum on whether or not the former Confederate states want to remain part of the USA is needed.
I'd rather see it go that way than the bloodshed of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.