“Besides, didn’t Texas try this once already before it got whipped back into line by Abraham Lincoln and the Feds?”
Yes,but that was before Spindle Top (circa 1901). Oil, black gold, Texas tea changed the economic future of Texas and is still changing it.
Even with oil and revenues, the Texas economy is much more diversified now. Only Californica and New Yawk state may be larger and they are in decline. The Texas economy is growing.
Texas, this time, will not secede from the Union. At some point, the other red states may join with Texas in booting the blue states out of the Union. Texans believe in the Constitution and Union our founding fathers gave us and want to keep it. Remember, the Union started with 13 colonies and grew into a nation.
Abraham Lincoln did not whip Texas or any confederate states back into line. He simply let Sherman loose to needlessly destroy all life and property in his march through Georgia. Sherman intentionally burned or destroyed every building (especially the courthouses where deeds and records were kept), railroads and rolling stock, homesteads and farm fields, and killed all the horses and livestock in his march to the sea. He did not distinguish between military or civilian targets. Southerners bitterly remember the events down to this very day.
Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox to end the war and the killing (630,000 dead after 4 years). Lincoln as far as I know did not even attend the surrender. Robert E. Lee did the honourable thing and was a greater man than Lincoln in my opinion. Lincoln only freed the slaves after the conflict started and the Union was beginning to fail. The conflict was not over the issue of slavery, but economics. Texas understands economics much better this time around and will not make the same mistakes.
Okay, Jed Clampitt, but isn't that what y'all said about cotton?
What part of the Constitution gives some states to power to boot out other states?