• jdrch@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    A Texas independence would not only violate the Constitution, it would sink the GOP in the remaining states due to the loss of Texas’ electoral votes, thus ensuring a Republican president would never be elected again. This is the biggest reason Texas will never secede, regardless of the state’s conservative nativism.

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      7 months ago

      it would sink the GOP in the remaining states due to the loss of Texas’ electoral votes, thus ensuring a Republican president would never be elected again

      So you’re saying we should forget the constitution just this once?

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      7 months ago

      I’m always baffled by how people point out succession as illegal as if it’s expected or common otherwise that bits of a country can break away whenever they feel like it.

      Would an independent Texas care if there was never a Republican president of a country they had left? Or would the see it as just rewards for those that those to stay there?

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        7 months ago

        Without ideological allies running the US, Texas would be very isolated, like Britain after Brexit.

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      7 months ago

      TIL I support succeeding from the US (as long as I can still move there afterwards)