Let em go, as long as they swear to make it permanent.

We'll provide relocation services for the intelligent texans, and send you the rest of the dumbfucks in this country. Be excited. You'll get Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, plus all the hottest republican women like Coulter and Hannity... oops, freudian slip.... Ingraham, and Malkin, with that mouth that just cries out for a teabagging.

The US would be much better off without Texas - all they do is drag the rest of the country down. Let them go, and tell them to take Arkansas and Oklahoma with them.

Why do you hate America?

Let's see, cost of having border security...cost of maintaining foreign embassies...cost of setting up your own monetary system...

Plus, no more FEMA money for wildfires and hurricanes, no more federal pork, no more Department of Defense money pouring into Lackland AFB, Fort Hood, Fort Bliss and Fort Sam Houston. And finally, no more NASA headquarters in Houston, we can move it to Orlando where it would have been in the first place if LBJ hadn't been in office at the time it was created.

Oh, teh Supercollider thing, too? Fuggeddaboutit.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.

Maybe that Russian nutcase who predicted the US would break into regional states wasn't such a nutcase . . . ;)

Do these morons have any idea what a hole Texas will become on it's own?

It already has the country's worst educational system. Maybe Mexico can reclaim their lost territory?

I think Texas should secede, it would be a great idea. While I'm sure there are some nice people in Texas somewhere, there sure does seem to be a lot of stupid rednecks with corny southern accents. Bush is from there: yet another reason Texas sucks. Phil Gramm is from Texas--yet another reason Texas should secede.

The USA would be fine, thank you, without Texas. So Texas: stop talking about seceding and start DOING IT!!!

...and don't let the door hit yer ass on the way out! :-D

Bush I raised taxes, after he promised not to, with the "read my lips" speech?

Texas gone = EPIC WIN for the US. Take your bible-thumpin' oil-drillin' gun-slingin' assy selves and form your own country of crazy.

First thing that will happen, I guarantee, will be a big, loud whine because all the services that federal tax dollars pay for have gone away. The biggest and the loudest will come from the wealthy oilmen, who will scream like a herd of Sarah Jessica Parkers denied shoes when all their free federal dollars aren't there anymore.

Half of Texas Republicans favor secession, huh? Well, I favor expelling all Texas Republicans from the union. They all hate America anyway. Almost as much as they hate black folks, and they do so hate them. We'd just need to be sure they didn't acquire WMDs and threaten the rest of the world.

Remember: the two most disastrous, unnecessary, and unsuccessful wars we have ever fought were served up by the only two Presidents from Texas. At the very least we should make sure that situation never occurs again.

Honestly, I was going to post on this but the eight posters who got there before me said everything I was gonna say.

I guess the only thing left to say is that the U.S. would be stuck dealing with another backward-ass petro-state (to the extent that Texas has any oil left) but I can live with that if it means the rest of the country becomes free to routinely elect presidents who can read at the eighth grade level.

... both have oil, and wherever you find oil you find people who want to secede.

I think we should let Texas go. At least there will be no need to build a Presidential Libary for GW Bush, and there will be no more presidents from that benighted state.

Just go away.

Would Texans living in the other 49 states be considered illegal immigrants?

Why do such a large percentage of Republicans hate America?

Here's hoping this idea really catches fire and it happens. For once I agree with the right-wing fringe. This is definitely one of those win-win situations.

1. Bush would become a feriner. We could snatch him and torture him at gitmo, no big whoop.

2. Given the current and trending ethnic breakdown of texas, in five years it'd be taken over by mexico, THEN we could build a border wall to keep all the non mexican texans from trying to sneak back into america.

Texas is a really nice place to live, and it's part of America, and it's staying that way. It hasn't always been a Republican state, either.

I don't expect my side to behave this way. I'm ashamed of all of you. We have a lot of hard working progressives here and you're just shitting all over them because it's ever-so-popular to bash Texas. So in the immortal words of Dick Cheney....

Go fuck yourself.

Chittum's "Civil War Two" must be required reading in TX public schools. Oh well, it *would* be nice to be U.S. Foreign Service Officer assigned to Austin, wouldn't it? lol

http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-II-Breakup-America/dp/0929408179

...then speaking on behalf of Austin, we'd like to secede from Texas and rejoin the Union. We'll be like a city-state in a sea of red...

Seriously, though, Perry is a clown, but if you lose Texas then you'll also be losing a large chunk of the videogame industry, SXSW, the best theater chain in America (Alamo), and really the only good source for Tex-Mex food. So there is a downside.

You want to secede? Then I say go! Get out of here already. Become that 3rd world country you so seem want to emulate. Ramp up your execution rate to a level unmatched in the history of civilized (uncivilized) countries. Rejoice in that. Rejoice in your hatreds. You will soon be free to kill all those Mexican bastards streaming across your border. You will soon be free to wallow in the putrid waste of your ideals.

Go! We don't need you. Lincoln was wrong. The Civil War was wrong. What point is there in preserving the Union if poisonous states like Texas are included.

So just go. Good riddance. And the rest of us in the good ol' Union will all be better off for it. You are nothing more than a cancer in our soul.