Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
OK, as there seems to be a pause for thought in this thread, I am posting this message as an aside and for information's sake (not as a corrective). In addition to Texas and Hawaii, California, Vermont and New Hampshire have also been independent nations, and it is now inconceivable that any of them would be allowed to leave the Union, not even to join Canada, regardless of what the treaties by which they joined originally said.
In spite of what many people think Texas never retained the right to leave the Union at its own desire. It can however subdivide into smaller states!