Texit. Pro or con?

[AngryAmish]

If Texas left, would you care? Pro: Permanent Democratic majority. Con: Lincoln would be pissed.

[lapfog_1]

1. pro

[DanTex]

2. Pro (now that I don't live there anymore).

[Turin_C3PO]

3. I'd be sad.

Texas has some of the finest Democrats I know.

[dawg]

4. Lots of awesome folks in Texas.

Wouldn't want to lose any of them.

[jberryhill]

9. The question is not about mass execution

They'll still be there. Just like friends and relatives in any other foreign country.

[ShrimpPoboy]

10. +1

[Electric Monk]

5. It would test whether they could stand alone. They might be surprised. nt

[OregonBlue]

6. They could send us their Dems and we would send them our Pugs and then they could Texit

and everyone would be happy. Oregon can always use more good Dems.

[Hekate]

7. I naively thought we settled that issue with a Civil War. But then...

....I was not raised in the South by Southerners.

No. Just no. Come into the 21st century with the rest of us.

[Nevernose]

8. There's a lot about Texas to love

Largest forest in the lower 48.
Best barbecue on Earth.
Damn fine Democrats.
ZZ Top.
Houston Symphony.
Austin.
That parking lot in Fort Worth where I got drunk for the first time and puked wine coolers on a cop's shoes.

But the thing about Texas that I love the most? The fact that I don't live there anymore. Thank God. If you're a Texan and offended by that, please consider the possibility of Stockholm Syndrome. It's nothing that a few months in Paris can't fix.

[byronius]

11. You certainly nailed that to the floor.

Add: rain that comes down in giant drops, the storms in general
Subract: giant ticks and roaches

I once thought I was going to die in North Texas. Never went that way again.