West Texas certainly isn't humid. I live in northeast Texas because of family myself, but I kind of like the wide open flat land out on the western side of the state, to be honest.
Where in NE TX? I’m in Big D, unfortunately. Have family from Hopkins County, Wood County, Lamar County. Even Texas has changed a lot over the past 10-15 years and not for the better. But if Texas secedes I could see Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and both Dakotas coming along. Split the country right down the middle. Then come the Gulf Coast states. With Trump’s home there why not make Mara Lago the new Capital of the seceded nation?
That area, actually. Hopkins/Wood/etc. Hour and a half or so east of D.
I feel like the most natural partnering if Texas did secede and brought friends would be Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. (And, honestly, the eastern half of New Mexico)
Basically, from the Rio Grande to the Mississippi and south of whatever parallel Ok and Ark's northern border is would be a geographic fit and a cultural one (Ar/La aren't exactly "South" to the extent that the Deep South east of the Mississippi is.)
I think concerns about things like capitals can wait until later, honestly.
The fact of the matter is that the US should really be splitting into something like 6 nations. Ever hear of "The 11 American Nations"? A book by a guy talking about the waves of immigration to the colonies (and, later, across the US), how they're allied/opposed politically, etc. There's even DNA support for this now in the sense of whose descendants went largely where.
Needless to say, they do not neatly cut at state lines, but basically, the Left Coast + Hawaii as a nation, Alaska + the greater Mountain West as a nation, New England as a nation, the Midwest as a nation, Tidewater (and its outgroths) as a nation, the Deep South as a nation, and Texas & friends as a nation would all make sense, culturally speaking.
The idea of exchanging one nation for two doesn't have all that much merit to me, because you still get a lot of conflict and differences that don't necessarily mesh. But the different ones could be allied (Tx + South + Mountain, for example) relatively easily in time of need or to achieve success of the dissolution itself.
I honestly feel EVERY American should read the Wikipedia page on "Dissolution of the USSR". Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but the page as a whole isn't that hard to read, and lays out how the USSR went from a World Superpower to a collection of distinct nations with various alliances/enmities, and how Russia was the inheritor to much of the USSR's global position and power (with other nations, like Ukraine, getting some of the assets, such as the nukes that they...foolishly traded away for promises of Western protection that didn't materialize when they needed them the most...)
How about North Texas? Like Lubbock? Looking for an area that is NOT humid
West Texas certainly isn't humid. I live in northeast Texas because of family myself, but I kind of like the wide open flat land out on the western side of the state, to be honest.
Where in NE TX? I’m in Big D, unfortunately. Have family from Hopkins County, Wood County, Lamar County. Even Texas has changed a lot over the past 10-15 years and not for the better. But if Texas secedes I could see Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and both Dakotas coming along. Split the country right down the middle. Then come the Gulf Coast states. With Trump’s home there why not make Mara Lago the new Capital of the seceded nation?
That area, actually. Hopkins/Wood/etc. Hour and a half or so east of D.
I feel like the most natural partnering if Texas did secede and brought friends would be Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. (And, honestly, the eastern half of New Mexico)
Basically, from the Rio Grande to the Mississippi and south of whatever parallel Ok and Ark's northern border is would be a geographic fit and a cultural one (Ar/La aren't exactly "South" to the extent that the Deep South east of the Mississippi is.)
I think concerns about things like capitals can wait until later, honestly.
The fact of the matter is that the US should really be splitting into something like 6 nations. Ever hear of "The 11 American Nations"? A book by a guy talking about the waves of immigration to the colonies (and, later, across the US), how they're allied/opposed politically, etc. There's even DNA support for this now in the sense of whose descendants went largely where.
Needless to say, they do not neatly cut at state lines, but basically, the Left Coast + Hawaii as a nation, Alaska + the greater Mountain West as a nation, New England as a nation, the Midwest as a nation, Tidewater (and its outgroths) as a nation, the Deep South as a nation, and Texas & friends as a nation would all make sense, culturally speaking.
The idea of exchanging one nation for two doesn't have all that much merit to me, because you still get a lot of conflict and differences that don't necessarily mesh. But the different ones could be allied (Tx + South + Mountain, for example) relatively easily in time of need or to achieve success of the dissolution itself.
I honestly feel EVERY American should read the Wikipedia page on "Dissolution of the USSR". Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but the page as a whole isn't that hard to read, and lays out how the USSR went from a World Superpower to a collection of distinct nations with various alliances/enmities, and how Russia was the inheritor to much of the USSR's global position and power (with other nations, like Ukraine, getting some of the assets, such as the nukes that they...foolishly traded away for promises of Western protection that didn't materialize when they needed them the most...)