If Texas ever succeeded I say we give them the rest of the south in the bargain. They can support those welfare queens instead of the rest of the country.
Since the rest of the country was smart enough to put an absurdly huge amount of its energy infrastructure in two of those southern states, Texas and Louisiana, I am pretty sure they will do just fine after putting a small tariff on all of your go go juice, heating oil, nat gas, etc..... Don't like it, fine then get it from somewhere else. Oh wait, you can't even begin to think about getting it from elsewhere now can you and even if you magically shit the infrastructure just to get it you still couldn't process it or damn near even move it without it going through one of those dirty southern welfare states.
Hell, Texas and Louisiana could get together and close the spigot for a week or so and yall non "welfare states" would be offering to get on their knees and perform obscene acts on them if they would turn it back on. Personally, I wish it would happen for just a couple of weeks and then everyone kisses and makes up just to show people like you how much the south is nothing but welfare states.
Don't worry about them though, even if they turn your spigot off they have the infrastructure to sell it to other countries and somehow I doubt they will have trouble finding buyers. Hell, Asia is begging for refined petroleum imports so all the crude they import to refine for the rest of the US can just as easily be exported to Asia while the non welfare states wait in 10 mile lines hoping to get a few gallons of go go juice.
Oooh, since they would be a sovereign nation all of that revenue Texas and La get fucked out of from offshore drilling would then be in their territorial waters. At least for Louisiana, that revenue alone would replace every dime the Feds send a few times over and thats before the tariffs.
Then there are the ports, the mouth of the Mississippi river (more tariffs!!), and the list goes on and on. But yeah, keep thinking it would be a good thing for the nation to just start getting rid of states because you consider the entirety of the value a state adds to the union is how much money they send versus receive to/from the Federal government. dumbass