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There would be significant economic disruption for all parties. People seem to think that's no big deal, but it is.
Are you willing to lose your job because someone gets a hard-on when they see a picture of the Alamo? People that are brave on the internet will say that they're fine with that, but in real life they don't actually want that.
Legal Eagle did a video on this and brought up some interesting points I dont see very often.
What happens to all the Federally-Owed land and military bases in Texas?
What happens to Shared assets like the gold on Fort Knox?
What happens with the National Debt?
Yes, if there were a hypothetical US military base, hypothetically called Fort Sumter, where there's US military stationed in a state that hypothetically seceded, how would that play out, hypothetically speaking? :P
Already lost my job by being pushed out by racist hicks. At Intel no less.
My job security would improve tremendously if we fought a war to keep them, so I'm trying to keep that from biasing me.