TELL US: Secession Movements: Serious Issue or Just Plain Silly?
Texas is only one of the states with thousands of signatures on petitions to pull out of this United States. How should the rest of us respond?
A month after Obama's re-election, 150 years after the bloody American Civil War, the White House has been deluged with petitions for states to withdraw from the union. Most of the petitions and signatures come from the same states which actually seceded in the 1800s and became the Confederacy. But there are would-be secessionists and their petitions from nearly all the states — even Massachusetts. Texas is where the secession movement has gained most traction. Even the secession opposition has a petition: to kick out secession-seekers. And the Texas state capital, Austin, has started a petition to secede from Texas if the state breaks away from the USA. While this can all seem, well, nothing short of silly, the rest of the world is …
Robert Wyckoff
1:06 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
I'm curious to know more about this Lexington secession in 1832. Was this related to South Carolina's Nullification act or the federal response to it? I haven't been able (so far) to find any reference to it. more ›