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Texas could vote on referendum to secede from the United States this spring (www.alternet.org)

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Leaders of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) — which openly calls for the Lone Star State to secede from the United States and become an independent nation again — appear to have surpassed the threshold to put a secession ballot initiative on the 2024 Republican primary ballot this March.Newsweek...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't actually going to happen but I think a Texit would be pretty funny and wouldn't last long. As soon as they lose federal funding and have to negotiate trade, figure out how to handle their own citizens documentation and try to figure out what happens to citizenships and the freedom of travel in the US, I'm sure they'd be like "this was a mistake, we're passing a law that repeals this, please let us back in!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would hope that the response would not simply be 'ok welcome back' at that point, just as it would not be for the UK were they to ask the same from the EU.