UNLESS IT GETS KICKED OUT, TEXAS WILL REMAIN A PART OF THE US

A Texas rep wants us to secede. Don't get your hopes up

 

By Abigail Rosenthal 

 

Houston Chronicle

December 10, 2020

 

Has it been a while since we've had this discussion?

Texas lawmaker Rep. Kyle Biedermann of Fredricksburg has vowed to file a bill spurring a vote to get Texas to secede from the U.S.

"The federal government is out of control and does not represent the values of Texans," Biedermann wrote on Facebook. "That is why I am committing to file legislation this session that will allow a referendum to give Texans a vote for the State of Texas to reassert its status as an independent nation."

Texas' history as an independent nation lends itself well to the idea of secession, especially when something annoys us in the broader sense of American life. Hey, we ran ourselves once, we could do it again, right?

However, it's unlikely the #Texit movement will ever get very far.

The Dallas Morning News' Briana Lao wrote in 2018 that a court case from 1868, Texas v. White, makes secession virtually impossible in a legal sense.

"When Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation," Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase wrote in the Texas v. White decision. "The union between Texas and the other States 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."

So, don't get your hopes up. It looks like we'll be part of the U.S. forever, pending a revolution or if we get kicked out.

Besides, America is better for having us.