Governor Rick Perry...Rising Star

Perry says Texas can leave the union if it wants to.

"Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that," Perry said. "My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that."

If the Government gets worse, Texas could secede from the Union. What are the benefits if you want to move to Texas?

--Low taxes

--Fortune 500 Company HQ (lots of them)

--Oil Refineries

--Natural Resources

--Great Weather

--Ammunition Depot's and Supply for 1/4 of US Armed Forces.

--Great open spaces for expansion

--Tourism (Alamo, Corpus Christi, etc)

Bad part...Some of the dregs from New Orleans stayed in Texas after Katrina. They and other entitlement mentality people need to get kicked out. If you abolish welfare, and food stamps, they will go on their own accord.

Secondly, you would have to overturn Texas v White, (1869) before you secede.

Why not, Supreme Court rulings get over turned all the time.

Texas vs. White argues that States can not leave, yet the 10th Amendment says they can.

The court's opinion was authored by Chief Justice Salmon Chase, himself a former cabinet member under Abraham Lincoln and leading figure in the Union government during the War between the States. Based on his previous position, many southerners questioned Chase's impartiality and believed he should have recused himself from the decision. While legally binding, the court's decision was extremely controversial and remains so to this day. Many former Confederate officials such as Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens as well as legal theorists such as Lysander Spooner rejected the court's reasoning and defended the right of states to secede.

Also cited was the statement in Article Four of the United States Constitution that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government."

Justice Grier, in a dissent in which Justices Swayne and Miller joined, denied that Texas remained a state, on the basis not that Texas had successfully seceded but that she had become a "conquered province". Grier cited precedent that a state is defined as an entity with representation in the United States Congress. During the Civil War, Texas had lost that representation. Thus, her status had become more analogous to an Indian tribe than to a state.