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ok, from B2 or so ... if Texas were to secede and become a stand alone nation, they would be ..

Posted by i'm not dead yet ! (aka pacrat) Sep 6 '13, 08:28

a nuclear power, right? i mean, chances are good there are some of the nation's nukes stored in Texas, right?

and on the other hand, it'd help curb illegal immigration into the United States, right? i mean, the Mexicans wouldn't be crossing the border into *America* anymore ...

third of all .... i'd have to look it up, but does Texas produce any oil? insert your own observations here ...

and finally, for now at least ... if they seceded, I'd be tempted to move there. what's the worst thing that can happen? Obama gets congressional permission to spank Texas back in line and back into the Union ...

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we would lose pippy. this cannot happen, end of story -- nm - dogbert Sep 6, 08:54 1
- she's already a DOT, but I'm sure there will be border crossings allowed. -- nm - zork Sep 6, 08:55
I wonder how high oil prices would rise. Also, what would happen to the TX tax rates - zork Sep 6, 08:51 1
- tangent: Top 100 Federal Funding Sounces in the Texas State Budget (Oct 2010) -- (link) - znufrii Sep 6, 08:54
nope. The Federal Govt would come down hard if Texas tried to keep the nukes. -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 08:37 4
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  - no question. And if they nationalized the oil companies in their territory...you could expect war. -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 09:05
  - Just think of the hit that the belt buckle industry would take! -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 08:54
- right. -- nm - znufrii Sep 6, 08:46
also, isn't that basically how the civil war started? states seceding, I mean? -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 08:37 4
- "basically"? -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 08:39 3
  - The War of Nothern Agression. -- nm - colin Sep 6, 08:55
  - "aside from the obvious schism between abolitionists and non-abolitionists there were economic factors both domestic and international." -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 08:48 1
    - just say slavery -- nm - dogbert Sep 6, 08:56
after quebec almost seceded they announced they would have appropriated federal government property if it had happened. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 08:36 2
- Which I would have given slight odds at causing a civil war. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 08:40
- Though for nukes, presumably some deal would be done, like with Ukraine and Kazakhstan when the Soviet Union broke up. -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 08:38
I'd like to point out that the net immigration of Mexicans is zero right now. An equal amount leave as come in to the country. - Krusty Sep 6, 08:35
it's totally pointless to speculate since it'll never happen, but for reference's sake texas produces ~30% of american oil....nm - x Sep 6, 08:32 11
- huh, looking into this more: texas' production in oil and natural gas is immense.... - x Sep 6, 08:37 10
  - I kind of wonder what their rig specifications are, because there are a lot more than 3300 drill rigs out there. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 08:44 7
    - yeah, that i don't know. i certainly bow to your industry knowledge on this front....nm - x Sep 6, 08:53 6
      - after a little checking, it seems they're talking production rotary mud rigs, which makes sense, but is a small slice of all the drill rigs out there. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 08:56 5
        
        there's a new show on History or Discovery (or NatGeo) about backyard drillers in the US. - zork Sep 6, 09:00 4
        
        stupid dictionary: artesian not artisan -- nm - zork Sep 6, 09:02 3
        
        No, no, don't be so hasty. -- nm - Marketing Sep 6, 09:07 2
        
        heee -- nm - zork Sep 6, 09:09 1
        
        yeah, i think "artisan drilling" is actually pretty brilliant...nm - x Sep 6, 09:11
  - They'd be a secular Saudi Arabia, for a while - Reagen Sep 6, 08:42 1
    - until people start talking about aborting drill sites -- nm - zork Sep 6, 09:07
Why would you be tempted to move there if they seceded? -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 08:32
The nukes are held be the Federal Government, not the Texas government. They would not be a nuclear power. -- nm - TWuG Sep 6, 08:30
Uh, the USA would take it's belongings out if that happened. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 08:29 9
- (Assuming there was still a functioning Federal Government. In an apocalypse situation all bets are off.) -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 08:35 8
  - (And whether they'd have the capability to build their own after an orderly secession is another question.) -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 08:41 2
    - Probably not given their textbook standards. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 08:48 1
      - It only took exactly 7 days to create the world, don't underestimate God's ability to make them a nuke if they pray hard enough. -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 08:50
  - Oh, I thought we were just talking about when Texas secedes in 2016? -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 08:41 4
    - Hey, who knows what can happen in 3 years? We saw how quickly New Orleans went to hell. -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 08:46 3
      - and California could fall into the ocean an hour from now -- nm - zork Sep 6, 08:47 2
        
        Four our purposes here I think I'll go with "surprise asteroid wipes out everything east of the Appalachians. -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 08:52 1
        
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It's wildly hypothetical, but just because nuclear weapons are there, it doesn't make them their's. They are US property and would be relocated. - volnelk Sep 6, 08:29

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