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Seaver, I respect your opinion more than many of the liberals on this board, because you are always willing to back up your position rather than regurgitate talking points fed to you by some partisan hack. But I fail to see the correlation between telling Americans to get out of the country if they don't like the politics and taking up Gov. Perry's threat that Texas would leave on it's own accord. Of course not everyone in Texas voted the douchebag into office, but he is the executive head of the state, and as such "speaks" for Texas. Hey, I'm from Illinois, and had a scumbag governor run out of office recently; for better or worse, the governor of a state is representative of the politics of that state.
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The talk of secession in Texas is complex. It has to do with the state pride which, having lived in many other states including Illinois, simply doesn't exist elsewhere. It originates being that Texas was the only independent country to willingly join the US (California was NOT a country, despite what they say) won in a very bloody war. People talk about their state pride in the same way people from Boston/Milwaukee claim no other city can drink like them. It's just boastful way of showing pride. In addition, Governor Perry fought off 3 other Republican nominees to keep his Governor position (none of which were tea baggers). He is not well liked in this state for many reasons, including how he deals with the House/Senate of the state. When he was saying that, it was simply to get a small jump in the Gubernatorial run... no sane person in Texas actually wants it.
The way our state is also put together by the constitution re-written post-Civil War is also unlike any other state. The Senate/House are only allowed to meet for 3 months every 2 years, and the entire budget must be settled and without any debts outside of war waged by the State.
The people in the Board of Education are generally appointed, not elected. The appointments are usually simply thank-you's for campaign assistance. This causes a lot of weird situations where they set down rules that all schools must follow, but on a local level they work completely around or ignore. For example: they ruled that evolution must be treated as a theory, and other competing theories must be taught as well. In actuality, they spend 2min on creationism, 2min on bump-on-log theory (13th century theory on how fungus grows), and then 2 months on evolution.
Have faith, no History teacher will ever ignore Thomas Jefferson. In addition, he's on the TASK Test (state wide test required to graduate) as well as Nationalized tests so he must be taught.