Modacity.net: Texas Simulator

[TVTyrant]

This is what some people actually believe.

lmfao.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...a#Colonisation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia

It's not entirely true, but it's not entirely untrue either.

[arbiter901]

What you don't understand is the US Government owns those bases. Texas would have to pay them off for them. You also wouldn't get those recruits, because those recruits are under the US government too. I doubt they would forfeit their pensions and benefits to swap over to the new 'Texan Country'.

You cannot assume anything that is within the land area of Texas, will be the property of the new country Texas we are talking about. All the infrastructure will either have to be bought out, or loaned out from the US. Water, gas, electricity etc; extensive trade deals will have to be made to make the new country viable and sustainable.

We're talking about a peaceful succession here, so a deal will certainly have to be made.

Texas has its own power, grid and enough water for its population.

The infrastructure for refineries is already here, and offshore drilling regulations would be gone.

[Pooky]

hey remember the part where lynchings in texas were considered family days out well into the 1900s and 1910s, and more recently, the part where the state governor refused to pardon anybody on death row (btw anywhere that has capital punishment is automatically backwards at least half a century automatically, sorry) even after they were proven to be innocent?

tell me more about how i am a giant ignorant dumb foreigner who Just Doesn't Understand please this should be fun

No but seriously you do ride a Kangaroo to work right? And use the word Crikey in normal conversation?

Stupid generalizations really show me how socially advanced you must be!

[Zeph]

What you don't understand is the US Government owns those bases. Texas would have to pay them off for them. You also wouldn't get those recruits, because those recruits are under the US government too. I doubt they would forfeit their pensions and benefits to swap over to the new 'Texan Country'.

You cannot assume anything that is within the land area of Texas, will be the property of the new country Texas we are talking about. All the infrastructure will either have to be bought out, or loaned out from the US. Water, gas, electricity etc; extensive trade deals will have to be made to make the new country viable and sustainable.

Roads, rail, ports, and airports as well. Interstates would have to be manipulated and even rerouted to provide method to stay within the States. It's also likely that the military will deploy around the inner border of Free-Texas since the US Border patrol would have no right to enforce the Texas-Mexico border.

It would also create hell for businesses heavily reliant on trade in and outside of Texas. Tariffs and all, you know. What of people with property in both Texas and the States? It's a logistical nightmare that won't be resolved for years.

[Higuy]

If Texas was to secede from the union it would probably throw things into motion that i think would, in the future, end up unifying the nation more. Just a thought.

[Warsaw]

Precedent has already been set. States do not have the right to secede from the Union. I can't believe this shit I'm reading these days...

[JackalStomper]

So when is the whitehouse going to tell the residents of Texas to get over themselves.

[TVTyrant]

Precedent has already been set. States do not have the right to secede from the Union. I can't believe this shit I'm reading these days...

This. You may not leave the Union. Were the Union to dissolve, then it would be a free for all. But it hasn't so it stays.

Also why is it that Europe and Africa and Asia are split into like, a billion countries, and North America is three? I'd like to see this changed.

[Tnnaas]

This. You may not leave the Union. Were the Union to dissolve, then it would be a free for all. But it hasn't so it stays.

Also why is it that Europe and Africa and Asia are split into like, a billion countries, and North America is three? I'd like to see this changed.

I think part of why there are so many states over there is because of a long history of wars. People want to be separate and follow their own rules, others desire land. It fragments the continents into different countries. How many wars were fought here? Very few, and if other nations owned land, we bought it because it would cost them more to fight for it.

Pray for a lot of territorial wars in North America if you have hopes to see a few nations fracture apart.

[thehoodedsmack]

Because those continents had been host to the majority of the Earth's population for a much longer time before North America was colonized. Ergo, much more time to fracture.

Edit: ^ Beat me to it.

Tip for Texas: Get yourself a Gandhi and demand home-rule. That's the best-case scenario I can recall of a new nation being founded by asking for independence.