I can speak for a lot of Texans... It has my vote
A long-time friend sent me a campaign ad by Texas State Representative Biedermann on his recent legislation, introduced in Austin, our capital, to allow Texans to vote on Texas' secession from the United States. As a matter of fact, Texas is one of six states that were once independent, free Republics. It may have been wise, at the time Texas united with the U.S., when the U.S. was ruled by its states rather than it ruling the states, taxing their citizens beyond reason, and Federal law overruling state law. But federal laws have been corrupted to the point of now being an unbearable burden for states and their citizens. So, many Texans would vote for secession. Texas is one of the few states which could easily manage itself as an independent, free Republic.
Texas is over 800 miles East to West and North to South. Within its borders is wonderful weather, strong agriculture (farms and ranches), industry producing nearly everything, hi-tech growing faster than any other state, higher education equal to any other country, wide range of import/export products, self sustaining power including gas, oil, solar, and wind-power, water, food, seaports, international airports, a Conservative majority, strong Christian base, and no finer people in the world. Texas could easily protect itself from Mexico or any other likely invader. Considering the policies of the far left, radical leadership in Washington, Texas would be far better off running its own affairs as a free nation. The Socialists in D.C. should be glad to lose Texas. They would then have complete control of the other 49 states and could add D.C. as a state and still have 50 and not have to change the flag. I say these things... in satire 10% but 90% in reality. I really believe it. But if you northerners or Californians want to come here, leave your left-wing politics, which ruined your states, where you found them. They will also ruin Texas.
Another conservative, patriot improvement would be Left-winger Democrats and Communists leaving Texas for California, New York or some other Democrat run state.
Texas Quotes
Davy Crockett's last words to Tennessee, after
losing his run for U.S. Congress, were ... "You
can all go to hell, I'm going to Texas". So he
came to Texas to fight Mexican General Santa
Ana's army, in our war for independence, to
become the Free Republic Of Texas. We were
not a state of the U.S. until some years later. Davy
helped gain our Texas freedom and was killed at the Alamo. In those early days there was a great movement into Texas from the north and south. It became common for families moving to Texas to leave a 2 letter note on the door ...GT. Everyone knew what it meant ..."Gone to Texas". That may happen again.
Mary Lasswell, who grew up in Brownsville, and wrote the famous book, "I'll take Texas", said: "I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on His day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth, by a really top hand."
John Gunther put it this way, "If a man is from Texas, he will tell you. If not, why embarrass him by asking."
Wallace Chariton, speaking of the size of Texas said, "In the covered wagon days, if a baby was born in Texarkana while the family was crossing into the Lone Star State, by the time they reached El Paso, the baby would be in the third grade.
Conrad Hilton bought his first hotel in Cisco and so, launched his empire in Texas. He said, "There's a vastness here, and I believe that the people born here breath that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in."
Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove), explaining where the Texas attitude came from said, "What my whole body of work says is ... that Texans spent so long getting past the frontier experience because that experience was so overwhelmingly powerful. Imagine yourself as a small, hopeful, immigrant family, alone on the staked plains, with the Comanche and Kiowa still on the loose. The power of that experience will not sift out of the descendants of that venturer in one generation. Elements of that primal venturing will surely inform several generations.
It is the summative meaning of all these quotes that gives power to our most popular, modern slogan: "Don't mess with Texas".
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Rayburn Blair adds this, "Being born and raised in West Texas, I have crossed, as a boy, many a trail where lay long lost Comanche arrowheads and old campfires. The East/West Butterfield, Overland Stages' iron clad wheels left deep scars in the sandstone, still there, as they once passed within walking distance of my home. I remember, In the 1930s, a few poor people still passing through West Texas in wagons drawn by horse, mule, burro or all three, headed west. How does a boy ever forget sleeping in the open Texas air, awakening on a cool summer morning to the lonesome cooing of a morning dove, the smell of horses, mesquite blossoms and bacon? Texans have independent, permanent, deep roots ... and, yes, the majority cling to their God, guns and Bibles. So welcome to Texas if you're willing to wear the bumper sticker brand that confesses, "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as soon as I could". We would be glad to trade our heretics and Democrats for you patriots. Under the Lone Star State flag, of Texas, you would only have one star and one God to answer to ... if we secede. RB
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