"If there comes a point where it’s hopeless, then I think we take NASA, we take the military, we take the oil,” Cruz told an audience at Texas A&M University.
Texas seceding would be a wild ride. You'd have all this wealth and labor tied up in big metro areas that the secessionists despise.
A big part of what makes this a fantasy is the belief that Ted Cruz speaks for the lay Texan, and not the goofy ass libertarians out in the suburbs who don't know where their treats come from.
I'm all for balkinization, but I don't think Texas Republicans have any real interest in it.
Texas seceding would be a wild ride. You'd have all this wealth and labor tied up in big metro areas that the secessionists despise.
A big part of what makes this a fantasy is the belief that Ted Cruz speaks for the lay Texan, and not the goofy ass libertarians out in the suburbs who don't know where their treats come from.
I'm all for balkinization, but I don't think Texas Republicans have any real interest in it.