Don’t mess with Texas? Fine. We’ll put the border fence up in Oklahoma

5 comments April 16th, 2009

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said at one of those tea-bagging sessions that Texas entered the union in 1845 only because it secured the right to secede if it got tired of the Americans.

Perry, a right-winger in a Republican battle for the Senate nomination with the more moderate Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson,  suggested Texans who are frustrated with federal mandates and taxes may well want to exercise this “right” to secede.

In the cheering  crowd in Austin was a giant Texas flag with “Republic of Texas,” printed on it.

Well, Texas has been a lot of things. It was part of the Spanish empire, then part of Mexico, then an independent republic. It joined the Union in 1845 as a slave state, and seceded from the Union in 1861, not to be a republic again but to join up with fellow traitors who formed an illegitimate regime, never recognized by the U.S.,  called the Confederate States of America.

That plan didn’t go too well for Texas, which rejoined the Union after the “War of the Northern Aggression.”

Maybe Rick Perry doesn’t remember his history and doesn’t know that Texas already seceded from the Union.

But if Texas wants to secede for a second time and be independent for a few years until demographics put it  back in Mexico, I think that would be fine.

Don’t mess with Texas? I won’t.  We’ll put the border fence up in Oklahoma.