Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 12, 2012

Let Texas and South Carolina secede. As long as we keep Austin, TX and their liberals, if any.

Ever since the Alamo, you can’t find good Mexican food this side of the Rio Grande.

Me, too, I’ll sign it. But Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Indiana have to go, too. Oh, and Tennessee, Northern Florida, and Kansas

Don’t worry – we’ll allow plenty of time for people on either side of the Border to emigrate to the side more in keeping with their politics. That means Idaho will lose its Neo-Nazis, and there will be a brain drain from Austin.

I’d sign it, too! Put it on the Web!

Ever notice how Earl only smiles when the “joke” is evil?

You forgot to add Oklahoma to your list, but leave Kansas alone. We go through periods of dementia, but eventually the pendulum will swing back. Gov. Brownbag can’t stay forever.

JR (to Susan): “Wanna check out my new oil wells, darlin’?”

Duke’s tie changes directions from P2 to P4. Also his drinko changes hands, but that could happen. And why are his vest buttons on the wrong side.

Why don’t you just all secede and split into separate states? Then you could have your wars with one another. The rest of the world would thank you for it.

There’s a lovely little SF story where the ENTIRE population of Texas packed up, lock,stock and barrell and relocated to another Planet. Taking the ‘Sacred Stones’ of the Alamo with them, and re-building it on ‘New Texas.’

Retaining their ‘feisty’ independance and their ‘Heavily-Armed’ neutrality they became something of a thorn in the side of the Galactic powers.

It’s by H. Beam Piper, and titled “A Planet For Texans”

Find it and Enjoy!

I’m looking forward to the South Park take on this.

I have a few progressive friends (and a brother) in Texas who are shaking their heads. Every state has progressive residents, and I’m sure they’d appreciate a more progressive state. However, there’s this thing about home and family (not to mention jobs) that makes it hard to move. Sigh. It’s hard for them, but when Texas is expelled, they should know there are many in the US who will sympathize with their quandary.

Demography is destiny they say. Texas is becoming a Latino-majority state. At the moment, Latinos are 38% of the state (the younger part), and Anglos are 45% (the older and richer part), but given that the Anglos are dying out without reproducing themselves as the Latinos, those figures will flip in another decade. As it is, Anglos are already a minority, albeit a dominate one, as they are in other parts of the country. Non-Latino Whites are a minority in Texas, California, and Hawaii. They have a shrinking majority of less than 60% in Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, and New York. You can see why the GOP has a problem if they can’t attract more Asians, Latinos, and African Americans, or they can’t discourage these populations from voting. The times they are a-changing, as they always do.

Um, if anyone starves and freezes to death it will be those who secede,“conservative.”

What would JR say? Probably something about now he can become King or Emperor

Texas is too dependent upon government welfare to leave. it is a nice dream though. at least we have hope once the stupid white people die off enough to let some “sane” people take over. though giving it back to Mexico would be nice too.

Molly Ivans warned us about Texas years ago.

Why are liberals against secession more than conservatives?

Will this be like the partitioning of India at independence, with Muslims going north to Pakistan and Hindus going south to India? Only we’ll have conservatives going south and liberals going north.

Texas will eventually turn from “red” to “purple”. Time and demographic changes will eventually do that. Austin, Dallas, Houston are already there. The Rio Grande Valley (border counties) are already “blue”. I hope i live long enough to see it. “damn yankee gringa in Texas”

So would that mean the great wall of America would move to the north side of the state?

I have said it before and I’ll say it again, these secessionist Texans are All Hat and No Horse !They talk a great game, but for all the palaver, they couldn’t wean themselves off the federal subsidies tit, if their lives depended on it.

Let Texas secede, and install Trff as it’s new ‘leader’…Winner winner chicken dinner!

If Texas secedes, will they send all the Texans back to Texas?

If they want to succeed, the first stat takes half of the deficit with them, the next half of that and so on..If several try at once, they will take the total amount it would be if done one at a time..Let’s see them want to leave them..This succession BS is a real slap in the face for the rest of the US and those who sign it should be deported for treason.

That was under the last administration; under the “new Deal”,I have no doubt we’ll go to the bottom while he uses the state to resolve his own financial issues.

I gotta side with Texas on this one. Anyone else remember over 150 years ago? 2 years ago SC considered minting their own money. Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.

Yeah it must bad in Texas, since so many Californians are leaving the Liberal Tax State for a better life in the LONE STAR STATE!! Union Free and no Personal Income Tax!

An interesting question: Can the U.S. Federal Government constitutionally banish a state from the Union? My feeling is the answer is “No,” for most of the same reasons a state cannot unilaterally secede. In any case, I can’t imagine a plausible scenario in which the rest of the country would expel an unwilling state from the Union.

Shoot! Try being a Dem in Oklahoma if you think TX is bad.

It’s funny how all the government bashers are quick to ask the government for help if there’s a flood or a fire. It’s my God given right to build in a flood pain, but send FEMA when the flood comes.

Wolf, that’s exactly what I feared for America if Money Boo-Boo had gotten elected. That’s why I always have a refrain ringing in my head, “We dodged a bullet”.

Where can I sign that petition?

I mean, the second one.

For a long, long time, I’ve been specifying that I’m not a Texan, I’m an Austinite. Almost everyone I know is liberal & progressive. When the rest of the country chortles about ditching Texas, I feel like those of us who ARE perfectly loyal Americans are being thrown under a bus. So, I want to thank those of you who are extending some moral support to us in Austin.Sigh. I’d move to a blue state if I could afford to!

We, in Texas, are at least wise enough to give our governor very little real power, vesting the real power in the lt. governor. And when we tire of a governor, we send them off to be president. And ya’ll vote for them. We sure don’t do it alone. Now who’s dumb?

The Texas power grid isn’t attached to the rest of the country. It allows the state to control and not the federal government.

Good riddance to the haters, wherever they are. Texas, South Carolina, wherever. We’d be better off without them.

Hand me that petition, quick!

I’d sign in New York minute!

good one

Or you could copy and paste it easily enough:) Copying and pasting is not my bag, sorry.

“And when we tire of a governor, we send them off to be president. And ya’ll vote for them. We sure don’t do it alone. Now who’s dumb?”.First, we didn’t vote for Bush, he was appointed once and stole one election. Perry went as far as his limited intellect would take him, and even the republicans didn’t want him..Second, from what I hear, he’s spent most of his time in office consolidating power through appointments, even if it is powerless position.

OK, NG & mt, hope this helps:.DeeBeeS said, 1 day agoLet’s see what the consequences are for secession (armed response aside…….. for the moment):

All federal military bases close and all personnel moved to the other 49 states.

All Social Security checks stopped at once.

All Medicaid payments to Texas stopped.

All college loans backed by federal loan guarantees called in for full payment at once.

All monies for infrasturctures (highways, roads, bridges, etc.) stopped all at once.

All educationsl financial support funds from the federal government to the state for colleges, and public education at all levels immediately stopped.

All Medicare payments to Texas doctors stopped at once.

All savings bonds held by Texans labled as “junk status”; i.e., cannot be traded or sold due to lack of an economic coopertation treaty between the new “Republic of Texas” and the U.S.

All research and other grants to Texas universities stopped and recalled by the federal government.

All commercial traffic coming to the U.S. through the port of Houston to be refused at the port, pending any economic treaty between Texas and U.S.

Sales of all commodities (cotton, wheat, soybeans, etc.) to the U.S. stopped at once pending same economic treaty.

All U.S. government property in Texas (Natinal parks, military basis, national forests, etc., etc.,) closed to “foreigners” i.e, Texans.

The list goes on and on, but you get the idea.

Be careful what you wish for Texians, you might just get it!!

Funny how all the Dem’s sterotype Conservatives, who do they think built this country? Oh, that’s right, they don’t think… just take without work.

Well, we sure don’t think that only conservative built this country! Guess who built the White House? Slaves! Do you suppose they were Republicans?

How about if we just give Texas back to Mexico, and wish them luck.

The expel-Texas group is named after their favorite line from the John Sayles movie “Lone Star.”

I think I might sign the petition to have Barack Obama do the Hokey Pokey, or explain to the American People why he will not put his left foot in.

As far as the red moocher states seceding, it might give the Union the chance to finish the job this time.

Again, shall we begin to call conservative Republicans fascists? That would be far more appropriate than calling liberals communists…

I love the last panel on today’s strip— Forget the Alamo! Dare to wear that bumper sticker on your car in Texas…

Or maybe not. Probably not worth it.

So it is appropriate and accurate to call Democrats Communists, but inappropriate to call Republicans Fascists? Is that really what you are trying to say? I hope you realize that there are more Democrats than Republicans in this country. If you really believe we are all Communists I would think you would pack and go somewhere else. Where, I don’t know or care.

The Texas Power Grid is seperated from the other two in the US. We are self powered! Non-Union Right To Work state with no income tax! That is why everyone is moving to join us! Plus proudly Republican Statewide for 20 years and home of the Great George W. Bush! Remember, it was Democratic House and Senate that pushed thru the rules that allowed the great crash of 2007!You can have Austin by the way…

The great George W. Bush?hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, the reason so many companies moved to TX was the breaks they got from the governor. He bragged about “creating” jobs, when what he was doing was stealing them.

It has been thirty years since I took American history, so my memory may well be flawed, but wasn’t Texas one the only states to elect a socialist government? Back in the 1920’s or 30’s?

I prefer uncommon sense. Otherwise called wisdom.

I have also noticed that a lot of the righties on this thread can dish it out, but they sure can’t take it!

Oh well, I guess that is ok with me anyway…

I get tired of certain people saying that Democrats are Communists. That gets a little old. They aren’t Communists. They aren’t even socialists. If you think about what Clinton did as well as Obama, they were really not even all that left wing, yet we have the GOP spewing this Commie crap.

“Oklahoma and North Dakota appear to be the only states with a good supply of common sense.”

And the other 48 states have uncommon sense?

Number of signatures:120,000Population of Texas: 25.7 million

Assuming that nobody has signed more than once, that’s almost one half of one percent. You could probably get more signatures than that on a petition to ban anchovies on pizza.

Yes, I am glad Kaffekup is on this thread too. And many others. I still miss LWP, even though I was concerned about his gloomy outlook before the election. So glad he was wrong and I know he feels the same… Sometimes I thought he was playing part to help motivate people to go vote.

Hey! Texas isn’t all bad