• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    All the tech companies in Texas would leave. As would most Democrats with the means to do it. There goes your highly educated workforce (Democrats tend to be more highly educated based on demographic data).

    The US military would leave. And then there goes all the defense contractors too.

    They wouldn’t be self-sufficient on their own. They’re only self sufficient because they’re part of the US.

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      9 months ago

      I’m a Texan and a Democrat. I would be out of here so fucking fast. I’d rather work at McDonald’s in California than live in an independent Texas Republic.

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      9 months ago

      Also, you’re forgetting an important factor: food. Texas is not part of the breadbasket, it is not known for its agricultural produce, and the amount of good soil is not enough to feed the population.

      Assuming Texas dips into its slush fund to buy things like grain, it would be flat broke in a decade, with only oil fields and beef to trade (they’d lose their offshore oil rigs).

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      This point right here so many Texas cities entire economy is based on the military industrial complex.

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        9 months ago

        Like they would let Texas take any classified parts of those bases. Things would get really interesting.