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Flag of Texas. Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, [1] [2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state.
Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas (2016). Timmons, Joe T. "The Referendum in Texas on the Ordinance of Secession, February 23, 1861: The Vote." East Texas Historical Journal 11.2 (1973) online. Wooster Ralph A. (1999). Civil War Texas: A History and a Guide. Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 0 ...
The cession of these lands, which for the most part lay between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, was key to establishing a harmonious union among the former British colonies. The areas ceded comprise 236,825,600 acres (370,040.0 sq mi; 958,399 km 2 ), or 10.4 percent of current United States territory , and make up all or ...
Washington has responded by suing Texas over various issues, including Abbott installing floating barriers to block migrants in the Rio Grande (U.S. v. Abbott) and asserting in its S.B. 4 law the ...
Secession also means millions of Texas seniors would probably lose their Medicare benefits as well. “If Texas were to become an independent nation, it would no longer be part of the U.S ...
It was 15 years ago that Texas Gov. Rick Perry had heads snapping across the country for pushing the idea that his state could secede. “We were a republic. We were a stand-alone nation.
A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
The state party platform adopted in 2022 states that "Texas retains the right to secede from the United States" and calls on the Legislature to put the matter to put the measure on the statewide ...