If Trump wins the election, I bet a lot more states would consider an exit.
Pity you don’t pay them enough to be able to afford fresh ingredients and the use of a kitchen, but I guess you folks have your priorities.
“Us folks”? Boy, to hear your tone, one would think conservative Texans were the ones encouraging millions of unskilled Mexican laborers to cross the border and drive down wages.
Sorry, that’s YOUR doing. It simply isn’t possible to increase wages AND flood the market with unlimited numbers of illegal immigrants. Supply and demand, you see.
I said no such thing.
Of course they are; outright slavery isn’t allowed any more, so they want the next best thing. They wanted easily victimized people they could exploit and abuse, preferably brown ones. Then they demonized the “illegal immigrants” so they could feel virtuous about exploiting them.
Well, we can have another Gadsden-like Purchase to buy Fort Worth back, maybe. I’m not all that familiar with the specific cities in Texas. Do we want Fort Worth?
Wisconsin, however, may be salvageable.
Texas can have Ted Nugent.
The Texas-secessionists outside the state will gladly join forces with the Texas-secessionists within the state! As I wrote in the OP, win-win!
Sorry for all the liberals living there. The fate of the sheep living among all the rams. I’m sure we can set up some fairly comfortable refugee camps for all y’all to come to. We’ll be able to re-integrate you into American society before too many years. 
The percentage of board members (and left-leaning people in general) expressing loathing of Texas/Texans and pumping up overblown stereotypes is probably comparable to the percentage of Texans doing the same thing as regards New York and northeast liberals.
In other words, a noisy minority with limited brains and influence.
Texas has attractions as a place to live; important downsides being floods, droughts, snakes, unending heat adulterated with blue northers, vicious and insane insects as well as horrific traffic in some urban settings. If a bunch of jerks on Twitter was the deciding factor, it’d be impossible to consider living anywhere.
Willie Nelson. You’ve been away a long time, haven’t you? Probably also put beans in your chili and Hellman’s mayonnaise on your barbecue. 
Hey! I’ll have you know I’m very influential.
Oh, and some of our interesting restaurants are run by Mexicans; of course, many more are staffed by them. The guy talking about the impoverished guys eating fast food lives in a city famed for hipster barbecue & hipster “tacos.” Besides, we have taco trucks…
Will Ted Cruz be President for life?
There is actually a group that has been pushing for (re-)secession for a couple of decades. How large that group is or how well organized is open to discussion.
My post, however, was a sidebar addressing the question of SDMB attitudes toward Texas.
Actually unlike the Scots–if somehow Texans actually held a referendum on secession the sitting President at the time would just laugh about it while saying “this isn’t legal.” Secession is not an option for any state. See Lincoln v. Davis, 1861-1865.
It’s not terribly important how big it is. Imagine if we held a poll on 9/12/2001 on “Should we expel all Arabs from the United States?” and I suspect, sadly, the percentage would be high. A majority? Maybe even, maybe not, but considering I saw 20% of Trump supporters felt slavery in the antebellum South was a good thing, I wouldn’t doubt it.
But it doesn’t matter because our constitution disallows expelling an entire race of people, and it disallows leaving. So it’s like polling on things that can never be.
Take Scott Walker.
Leave the cheese, beer, and bratwurst.
Indeed. I will go so far as to admit Austin is a decent place. And if I had to be in Texas, Austin is where I would want to be. And as much as I hate Texas, if I had to live in Oklahoma, then I would just slit my wrists. But my hometown in West Texas was full of not only stupes like you say but outright sadists. Shortly after moving there when I was five years old, neighbor kids hanged our Cocker Spaniel, and my father did not report it due to concern over retaliation from the kids’ parents. It pretty much went downhill from there. I even dropped out of high school due to the merciless bullying, although I did eventually go on to university anyway.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. If that had happened to me, I would have gone totally apeshit with one of the AK-47s that seem to be so readily available down there.
Headline: YANKEE HIPPIE SLAUGHTERS 36 NEIGHBORS OVER POODLE DEATH WHILE SCREAMING
It was a little over a year after we had moved to Texas and just a few months after we moved into the new house we’d had built, so I was seven. All I knew was the dog simply disappeared one day. Years later, my father admitted what really happened. As he was driving to work one day, he saw our dog hanging from a tree in a neighbor’s backyard. I was angry that he had not called the police. But it did help me to understand why we generally kept away from the neighbors and to ourselves.
Good fucking riddance to Texas if it could ever happen, but it won’t.
That was a shitty thing to have happen, and it sounds like you were stuck in a particularly shitty corner of a state that undeniably has–and causes–plenty of problems. The rot runs deeps, especially in a lot of small towns that are hard to escape from. You’ve suffered from it much more directly than most people in this thread, and I understand the visceral reaction. Terrible things happen in those places, and all too often, justice is denied.
I’m not defending the state’s institutions. They’re predominantly controlled by reactionaries, and they’re actively making things worse. All I’m asking is that people keep in mind that anger at those institutions–however justified that anger is–doesn’t make it right to dismiss or condemn millions of people who aren’t fools, bigots, or outright sociopaths. We’re trying to make things better, and we don’t need people cheering on the bad guys.