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In reply to the discussion: Why is Texas always a mere Fort Sumter away from seceding? [View all]cloudbase
(5,511 posts)15. We're too busy
fighting it out with Alabama and Mississippi for 50th place in all the stuff that matters. Fortieth? Pffft!
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Well at least Texas would get the border fence they always wanted.................
firenewt
Nov 2012
#4
I always find it amusing that 10's of thousands are assumed to speak for 10's of millions
n2doc
Nov 2012
#6
This is too true. If you are fed up with brash, tough talking Texas Republicans, imagine
Dustlawyer
Nov 2012
#8
They are a lot of things, but giddy isn't one of them! With some help from the DNC we could flip
Dustlawyer
Nov 2012
#7
Perhaps in some fantasy TX constitution that lives forever in the fevered imaginations
struggle4progress
Nov 2012
#24