Can voter anger lead to secession?

For all the Rick Perry bluster, the American flags I see flying on poles when I drive to and from work tell me the secession status of Texas.

Texas as an independent country connecting with the U.S. via an antebellum Anschluss (as cited in media) was superseded by the conditions of readmission to the Union after the Civil War.

(I misspelled "to" and "Anschluss." Es tut mir leid.)

 

There are many Texans who believe that the Lone Star State, which was once its own country, could do it again. There are those who think California, another state that was once its own country could too.
But it ain't happening. Like it or not, this is THE United States. We're in this for the long haul!!!!

 

Not too long ago, there was some talk of Vermont breaking off from the U.S.
Don't think that will happen.

 

Oh, those crazy people in Vermont. Another state that was on its own.

 

Texas and California are the only states whose economies could compare with other countries favorably independently (top 10 or 11 each). Texas will catch up with Cali in population (and congressional representation) in 20 years and will probably be economically more important long before that.

ADD: As long as Texas has as much influence as a whole on the nation, which will be practically forever, Texas is going nowhere.

 

Not really. Any of the states that might seriously consider it would be on the list of states that get more federal tax dollars than they contribute.

 

Once upon a time . . . before they bought in.

 

There was always a curious contradiction about Reconstruction. If secession was illegal and the acts declaring it were null and void, how come the states had to be readmitted to the Union?

 

And we see, the bunch that keeps screaming about how much they love their countree, want to tear it apart. Bottom line.

 

Hawaii once was its own country, and they weren't bought in. They were annexed. Manifest Destiny baby!

 

I'm putting my money on South Carolina for this.

 

A couple of years ago some religious group out west announced plans to move their followers to South Carolina to take over and lead to secession. It stalled when none of them could find jobs