I live in Texas, and I’ve been hearing a lot about Rick Perry’s talk of seceding. I find it absolutely absurd.
One of the interesting parts of Texas joining the union is that it negotiated the ability to secede. Some places I’ve read say that this right has been changed into the ability to split into four states. But I’ll cut to the chase:
Texas won’t be seceding. No one can be that stupid. Rick Perry is just using it to rile up his base. Sadly a lot of voters in Texas just simply don’t realize how bad the idea of seceding is.
Sometimes I wish I didn’t live here in Texas. The Austin area is pretty sane, with a good atheist community. But for every sane person in Austin, there seems to be two or three that are just ridiculous.
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