10 Things We'd Lose If Texas Actually Seceded

10 Things We'd Lose If Texas Actually Seceded: A year ago this week, more than 125,000 people signed a secession petition asking the Obama administration to “Peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.”

Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman (R), who is running to be the state’s next attorney general, told WorldNetDaily in September that he has been preparing for secession in case "the rest of the country falls apart.”