Should Texas be its own nation again? Texas Independence Referendum (2020)

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10 points·Kukumber··5 comments

Lol, its always fun when people get this idea.

On a more serious note, it drives me crazy when people move and immediately start trying to change things (most often, things that made the place unique).

A good example is in east Austin people in a luxury apartment started complaining about a car show that had been there long before the apartment complex ever existed. Not to say all the complaints aren’t valid but it just boggles my mind people have such entitlement.

Airport moves to outskirts of growing town. Town grows around airport. Town chases away airport as nuisance. Goto 0.

While I get that some people are overly entitled, I think there's often too much of "X thing was there when I moved here, therefore X thing is an immutable fact of the universe and must never, ever change" attitude.

You see it in San Francisco a lot, with people who moved in only a few years ago complaining about how the city is ruined now because something changed, regardless of what it was, or how it changed. I assume Austin is similar.

Here is an in-depth analysis on Quora of the problems Texas would have as an independent nation[0], assuming a peaceful "Texit." TL;DR, everything collapses and their best bet would be getting annexed by Mexico.

[0]https://www.quora.com/If-Texas-were-to-secede-from-the-Unite...

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