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I'm starting to empathize with Texas trying to leave the Union.
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What does that have to do with their original reasoning? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements
The wiki doesn't talk about who's funding the modern efforts.
i.e. Calexit, Albexit, Brexit, etc.
Yo that is curious. I see Russia pop up so much in reading about different secession movements.
I wish they weren't all right wing movements. When do the anarchist get to run the secession.
Well I have a vague understanding of it. I read through the Wiki and a lot of the reasoning in recent years seems to align
Basically: we don't like what's going on with the federal government and would like to not be bound by them.
I mean I generally disagree with their specific politics, but I get wanting to leave when you feel bound up / forced to do things that you think near no one in your state would vote for.
I know I didn't touch on original reasoning, but I really only care about what's been going on recently. So I skipped to stuff in the last 25 years. I'm not trying to talk to folks from the past.