Texas Secession Is Not a New Idea

[struggle4progress]

Lily Rothman
1:25 PM ET

As Texas Republicans meet for their state convention this week, one item on the table would invalidate the very name of the meeting itself: after a run of local resolutions supporting the Texas independence, the party will vote on the question of Texas seceding from the Union ...

In the 1990s .. the “self-declared ‘ambassador, consul-general and chief foreign legal officer’ of the separatist Republic of Texas,” a man named Rick McLaren, led a week-long standoff against state authorities ... McLaren and his followers believed that .. the Republic of Texas still existed ...

Texas Republicans were expected to vote on the secession question on Friday.

http://time.com/4329364/texas-secede-history/

[rocktivity]

1. I wonder if that video Keith Olbermann did is still around

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[DavidDvorkin]

2. I hear they experimented with it in the middle of the 19th century.

[JosephAlanWatson]

3. :)

Texas will never have a succession. They only talk about it when they get upset with us Democrats, and don't get there way. It's basically throwing a fit. After another dem wins you will hear about it all over again.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Hi! Welcome to DU from a Houstonian.

[JosephAlanWatson]

5. Thanks

Thank you! I used to live down there in grand prairie, Texas but moved up here to Wisconsin within the last year. There was always talks about a succession for many years but never happens.