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Originally Posted by Ice|Burn
Texas. It's like a whole other country.
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It
WAS.
Twice.
For 10 years, beginning in 1836, the Republic of Texas was an independent state bordering Mexico and the United States. From 1861 to 1865 Texas was part of the Confederate States of America, a “whole other country”.
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Originally Posted by Ice|Burn
Can we vote Texas out of the union?
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No. over 360,000 men fought and died to keep Texas in the United States. They won.
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Originally Posted by Ice|Burn
I'm sorry but when a state makes inane and utterly asinine decisions such as this that effect other states... someone some where needs to step in and say no..
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Other men thought the same thing once. Certain states in the south, felt that northern states were making inane and utterly asinine decisions that affected them. Over 258,000 of them died trying to step in and say no. They lost.