# Texit next! Who could complain about that? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 25, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288 "2016-06-25T01:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/1 "2016-06-25T01:48:45Z")
Texit is afoot! After Brexit, secessionist groups in the U.S. are all het up to do the same. It all starts with Texit, but other groups around the country are lickin’ their chops too. See Post #29729 and #29730 _et seq._ over in SRIOTD – But perhaps this topic merits a thread of its own here? > [@Stupid Republican idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29736): > > Twitter is apparently aflame with “Texit” tweets today. > > Dear Omnipotent Deity I don’t believe in: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!! We’ve been good. We’ve eaten all our vegetables (well, not the beets. Those are gross). We walked the dog. We didn’t hit our sister (hard). Please let us have Texit for Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/2 "2016-06-25T02:04:49Z")
Buhbye, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. ---
**Author:** ![Salvor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Salvor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salvor)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/3 "2016-06-25T02:08:28Z")
If at first you don’t secede, try try again. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/4 "2016-06-25T02:13:53Z")
If Angela Merkel gets pissed off and wants a vote to take Germany out of the E.U., will it be called “Gerxit?” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/5 "2016-06-25T02:15:43Z")
Can we build a wall? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/6 "2016-06-25T02:16:54Z")
I’d be willing to let Texas go, if they promise to take along Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi, and all of Louisiana north of N’Awlins. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/7 "2016-06-25T02:19:31Z")
Wait till they hear we get to keep all the military bases. [All 21 of them](http://militarybases.com/texas/). ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/8 "2016-06-25T02:31:08Z")
Yeah, welcome to the third world. Hello permanent democratic presidency. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/9 "2016-06-25T02:45:05Z")
I don’t mind. You’d hand control of the white house over to the dems for the next 10-20 years, and reduce the GOP majorities in congress. Plus Texas is turning purple, so in 20 years when Texas is as purple as Virginia they can rejoin the union. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/10 "2016-06-25T04:48:38Z")
You know what? I’m not going to write it all again. I’m just going to quote myself: > [@Stupid Republican idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22922): > > Please remember that there are a _lot_ of us trying to rein in the stupidity here. Over 3.3 million Texans voted for Obama in 2012–more people than _live_ in Iowa, or in 20 other states. We’re still badly outnumbered, but we’re fighting the good fight. Broad-brush bashing, or encouraging liberal-minded people to move out of the state, doesn’t help us as much as you might think. > > Would I like to live in a more liberal place? Sure. It would be easier. But if I leave, Texas will be that one tiny little bit redder. One vote farther away from sanity. Does one vote matter that much? Of course not–but it’s not just my vote, it’s the votes of all the people like me. We stay. We vote. We argue. Sometimes we persuade someone–usually someone young. Hopefully, the little victories will add up enough to change things here in my lifetime. I understand the temptation. I really, really do. I live closer to these people than you folks do, remember? And I know that most of you aren’t really serious about it. But all this enthusiasm for kicking Texas out feels an awful lot like stabbing 3+ million of your beleaguered allies in the back. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/11 "2016-06-25T05:06:15Z")
Donald Trump has a better chance of winning than Texit, 'nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/12 "2016-06-25T05:22:31Z")
Secession was discussed at the last Texas Republican Convention. Even _those_ nutcases dropped the matter. Besides, our status as one of the United States is different from the UK’s membership in the EU. Secession has been tried & it didn’t work out. Written from Houston (most diverse city in the USA), namesake of a staunch Unionist. _All_ Texas cities tend Democratic, not just groovy little Austin… ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/13 "2016-06-25T05:44:52Z")
This thread will now make an Eexit. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/14 "2016-06-25T05:50:22Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Texit is afoot! After Brexit, secessionist groups in the U.S. are all het up to do the same. It all starts with Texit, but other groups around the country are lickin’ their chops too. See Post #29729 and #29730 _et seq._ over in SRIOTD – But perhaps this topic merits a thread of its own here? Of course Texit would be a hot mess. For all the Texan pride on display in certain quarters, Texas is not really a cultural unity. It’s a mess of territory that’s been held together as long as it has only because the USA let it in and protected its anglo ruling class. When Texas was a republic, it was barely able to function. Independent Texas would be weak, fractious, and sort of confused. What is a Texas Republic that isn’t trying to join the USA? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/15 "2016-06-25T05:55:09Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I understand the temptation. I really, really do. I live closer to these people than you folks do, remember? And I know that most of you aren’t really serious about it. But all this enthusiasm for kicking Texas out feels an awful lot like stabbing 3+ million of your beleaguered allies in the back. But is there any hope for these 3+ million beleaguered allies? Is it a hopeless cause? The predominance of far-right-nutcase influence in Texas is really damaging – not just in Texas itself but nationwide. Cruz in the Senate? Gohmert in the House? The ravings of Perry and Abbott? Look at the influence that the religious right in Texas has on school textbooks nationwide. Those school boards, being taken over by fundamentalist radicals, dictating that science and history books be revised according to their lights – and actually having some degree of influence in doing so – that affects us all. So for you liberals crying in the Texas wilderness: Is there any hope? Is it a lost and hopeless cause? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/16 "2016-06-25T06:32:23Z")
Crying? I’m encouraging. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/17 "2016-06-25T06:34:45Z")
We have the Texas Freedom Network; dealing with[textbooks](http://http://tfn.org/issue/textbook-censorship/) is one of their issues. The _[Texas Observer](https://www.texasobserver.org/)_ has been providing “Sharp reporting and commentary from the strangest state in the Union” since 1954. Ted Cruz (!) supplied [words of hope](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/11/19/the-party-next-time) to the _New Yorker_ back in 2012: > [@](#): > > “If Republicans do not do better in the Hispanic community,” he said, “in a few short years Republicans will no longer be the majority party in our state.” He ticked off some statistics: in 2004, George W. Bush won forty-four per cent of the Hispanic vote nationally; in 2008, John McCain won just thirty-one per cent. On Tuesday, Romney fared even worse. > > “In not too many years, Texas could switch from being all Republican to all Democrat,” he said. “If that happens, no Republican will ever again win the White House. New York and California are for the foreseeable future unalterably Democrat. If Texas turns bright blue, the Electoral College math is simple. We won’t be talking about Ohio, we won’t be talking about Florida or Virginia, because it won’t matter. If Texas is bright blue, you can’t get to two-seventy electoral votes. The Republican Party would cease to exist. We would become like the Whig Party. Our kids and grandkids would study how this used to be a national political party. ‘They had Conventions, they nominated Presidential candidates. They don’t exist anymore.’ “ Let’s hope The Donald inspires the _Tejano_ vote (against him). But I don’t think we’re turning Blue state wide very soon. Still, our cities are Blue islands with interesting cultural scenes & good things to eat. Strong air conditioning is necessary–but we don’t freeze over in the winter. Our City Hall is currently [lit up for Pride Week…](http://www.khou.com/news/local/behind-the-scenes-lighting-up-city-hall/255065510). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/18 "2016-06-25T07:39:32Z")
Wow. Cruz said all of those as if they would be _bad_ things. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/19 "2016-06-25T07:47:16Z")
I remember reading an article once that talked about Texas seceding from the union. And while, no doubt, seceding would suck for Texas, the article made some very sound points why it would suck for the United States as well. So hate on us all you want, but you guys kind of need us. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288/20 "2016-06-25T08:46:31Z")
Now now, don’t get your knickers in a knot and please don’t let your case-iron curls drupe. We’re just funning on y’all. Yeah, Texit would be worse than an apricot pit in Aunt Betsy’s blue-ribbon jam that for sure and that ain’t no lie. Now just plant that prudy backside of yours right down, open up a can of that there Lone Star Beer and tell us all about that nasty Baer Britain telling tales out of school, ya hear. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texit-next-who-could-complain-about-that/758288.md?page=2)