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2023-03-06 Home Front: Politix

Conservatives Want to Secede From Oregon, and Leftists Are ENRAGED

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-06 00:57|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 Didn't go down well last time either.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-06 01:01|| 2023-03-06 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually there is precedent (of a sort): the District of Columbia Retrocession. If the County of Alexandria can be 'moved' from the District of Columbia to the state of Virginia, legally if not strictly constitutionally, then a similar Act of Congress could move counties from Washington state to Idaho state.

Not that it is in any way likely...

Posted by magpie 2023-03-06 03:21|| 2023-03-06 03:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Worked for Texas.

Texas remembers the Alamo every March. Here are 10 things you may not know about the Lone Star State's history

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-06 03:47|| 2023-03-06 03:47|| Front Page Top

#4 If this becomes a movement beyond Idaho and Oregon the left will find they are a bunch of city states.

Posted by Ruprecht 2023-03-06 06:12|| 2023-03-06 06:12|| Front Page Top

#5 West Virginia did it.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-03-06 07:40|| 2023-03-06 07:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks, Skid (#3) here's some more facts about Texas -

Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas (#14 particularly):
1. Port Arthur to El Paso : 889 miles. Port Arthur to Chicago: 770 miles
2. Brownsville to Texline (north of Amarillo): 956 miles. Texline to Canada: 960 miles
3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos, Tx July 4, 1883.
5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water. Destroyed by Hurricane Ike - 2008!
6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston, Texas .
7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America.
8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
10. The worst natural disaster in US history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island.
11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was " Houston ," but the Space Center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.
12. The King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island.
13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a US rainfall record of 43" in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979.
14. Texas is the only state to enter the US by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas to enter the Union) instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same height as the US Flag, and Texas may choose to divide into 5 states.
15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper.
18. Texas has had six capital cities: Washington-on-the Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco, West Columbia, and Austin .
19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the US which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington , DC (by 7 feet).
20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in the world and it is taller than the Washington Monument .
21. The name 'Texas' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning "friends". Tejas is NOT Spanish for Texas .
22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo. An interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies. They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.

Posted by Bobby 2023-03-06 08:44|| 2023-03-06 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 "Let my people go"

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-06 08:50|| 2023-03-06 08:50|| Front Page Top

#8 also W. Virginia :

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/west-virginia/articles/why-west-virginia-split-from-virginia/

Posted by 746 2023-03-06 09:26|| 2023-03-06 09:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Portland PDX hasn't given a rats ass about those counties for decades. Now? Diff story. What changed? Same for CA and all other Dem crap holes. Expose the bastids. This is the way.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-03-06 13:00|| 2023-03-06 13:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Collectivists gonna collectivize. They want your tax money (all your property and wealth accumulated through labor, actually) What they don't want is your opinion. Of anything.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-06 13:25|| 2023-03-06 13:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Bobby, #23) Texas capital building dome in Austin is taller than the US capital dome in DC

Posted by Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2023-03-06 16:14|| 2023-03-06 16:14|| Front Page Top

#12 The Oregon legislature will never let its tax-slaves off the plantation.

Also, as I understand it Texas cannot succeed from the Union. But it can divide into up to 5 states.

Posted by CrazyFool 2023-03-06 17:12|| 2023-03-06 17:12|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ Yep and that's exactly what they are as well as all of NorCal. We're just living/breathing ATMs fueling this insanity. Folks who say a national divorce is not possible forget there are far worse things than a divorce. Far worse.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-03-06 17:24|| 2023-03-06 17:24|| Front Page Top

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