Yeah... You people are seriously deluded.
If you bothered to look at the numbers, instead of relying on your radio talk show hosts to interpret them for you, you'd see that the most productive states in the nation are generally blue states.
The higher the population density, in general, the more tax revenue produced, and the less federal funding received.
That's why states like New York are giant revenue generators, while Alaska is basically a welfare state that mooches off the federal government as a matter of course. That is, when they're not forcing the oil companies in their state to pay each individual for the state mineral rights. Damn Communists.
So, if Texas is going to secede, I'd ask them to take the whole damn region south of Virginia (a blue state) with them. And Alaska can go form their own nation, and starve themselves out after about a month or so.
It would be a massive financial burden off the back of the rest of the nation.
