[erkyl]

Everyone should read this link (see Proud_texan's post), if you're interested in seeing what the Founding Fathers thought about secession. The closing paragraph, however, should encourage each of you who may have forgotten the sovereignty of each of your states in this voluntary union.

Upon these principles we can arrive at no other conclusions than these -- that according to the Constitutional doctrines of America, whenever a State decides by the vote of a majority of its people, that the government over it has become destructive to the ends of its welfare and happiness, and no longer exists in its consent, such State has a right to abolish that government, so far as it concerns itself, or, in other words, has a right to secede from the Union.

[BubbaBasher]

How about establishing Freeperville,TX? We find an area that has a large amount of available acreage and buy adjoining lots. Then we form our own town. erkyl, you could be our first school teacher.