Valrifell wrote:Diopolis wrote:
There's a sizable contingent from the "restricting abortion is worse than slavery/banning gay marriage is the same thing as stoning women for not wearing a burka" camp that wants Texas retained to force liberal social policies on it. Mostly, however, I think they want Texas retained because the state with the second largest economy and population and most of the refinery capacity suddenly withdrawing from the union would inevitably create some economic and budgetary issues in the rest of the country- which is why I favor a graduated secession plan.
God dammit, you're right. This is all some plot to keep the Glorious Texas down because we're all secretly super jealous and we know they're policies and ideas are superior to our own. This is about forcing our terrible, freedom crushing, ideology down the throats of every good god-fearing Texan to convert them to atheist homosexual hippies who hate freedom. Damn, you busted our whole operation. It's not like that if Texas were to leave, we'd have a case were every state would want to leave, and having 50+ nations sharing the same area of the US isn't exactly going to be the most beneficial thing to all of them, nope, we just are really jealous of Texan might, you glorious bastards you.
I never suggested anything like that. I suggested that some people oppose Texas secession because they hate conservative social policies but that most oppose it because the second largest state in the union suddenly leaving would cause some economic problems.
