JuanBatista
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:lol: no, it doesn't.
Texas is pretty low on the list of poverty rates ( 46th)lots of work to do there.. but not bad on infant mortality rate (30th)... couldn't find a state by state ranking of HS drop out... but Texas is just a tad below national average ( at 75.5% graduation rate.. which ain't bad)
I don't see the utility is speculating a failure or a success... " no reason Texas would be any different" is a lazy approach and precludes the notion that Texas could, in fact, do it very different and have very different results from whatever group of secessionist countries you are comparing them to..
Actually, yes it does. I really have to laugh at conservatives or libertarians wanting to ignore the good that govt does. There's a good reason the highest life expectancy is in Sweden and Japan, and lowest in places like Somalia, the logical end result of libertarianism.
What you keep ignoring is that over half of texas has never favored secession and would fight it tooth and nail. Among Latinos that opposition is virtually unanimous. Only among white hardline conservatives do you get close (but not quite) a majority favoring secession.
So a seceding Texas would lose at least a third of its land and population and look like the third map I keep pointing to.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/download/158998/1/3212626/the-end-of-texas.pdf
And that's a formula for civil war, chaos, and a nosediving economy.