Since November 6, there has been a lot in the news and on the internet about people in several states, especially Texas, petitioning the White House to put it on notice that they want to secede from the union.
In February 2009, long before this year's presidential election, the Texas House of Representatives passed a resolution threatening secession by claiming ‘sovereignty’ for the state. Gov. Rick Perry supported that resolution. A Rasmussen poll found that 1 in 3 of those surveyed believed that Texas has the right to secede and 48 percent of Texas Republicans surveyed supported secession from the U.S.
I hate to throw cold water on those 1 out of 3 idiots who believe Texas has the right to secede - they're full of shit!
From Wikipedia:
__Discussions and threats of secession often surface in American politics, and secession was declared during the Civil War between the States. However in 1869 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869) that unilateral secession was not permitted saying that the union between a state (Texas in the case before the bar) "was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States."
That's why I used the term ‘idiots’ for those who believe in the right of secession, and that includes Gov. Rick Perry who most certainly should have known better - but then, during the Republican presidential debates, he could only name two out of the three government agencies he wanted to eliminate.
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