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To: steve harris who wrote (220738)	2/24/2005 11:13:18 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1587370

" but I saw somewhere today about Texans wanting to secede from the Union..." As that article notes, this is something that surfaces periodically. About every decade or so. There are several reasons why that is the case, up to and including the fact that Texas was an independent country for about a decade. As a result, it entered the Union under very favorable conditions. This, however, is a losing proposition for the moment. There will be a time when the US will break up and spin off states into countries. When it does, Texas will be one of the first. But that time isn't now. Texas is the only state that has a scenario where that is legal. One of the provisions by which Texas became a state is that it could divide up into as many as 5 separate states. If they would do that, then it is extremely unlikely that Congress would accept it, given that it would throw the balance in both the Senate and the House, not to mention the Electoral College, out of whack. At that point, the argument could be made that this violated the treaty by which Texas entered the Union, so it it renders that treaty void. At this point in time, the divisions would be Galveston, Austin, South and West Texas, East Texas, and North Texas... Personally, I don't care. Each area has great barbeque...