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Texas. Proposed state or autonomous area: Republic of Texas. Ethnic group: Americans, Tejanos; Advocacy groups: Texas Nationalist Movement, [109] [110] Republic of Texas (group) New Hampshire [111] [112] Proposed state or autonomous area: New Hampshire Advocacy groups: NHexit, [113] [114] Foundation for New Hampshire Independence, [115] Free ...
Flag of Texas. Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, [1] [2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state.
The list of county secession proposals in the United States includes proposed new counties to be formed from existing counties within a given state that have not yet been formed. For counties that want to secede from their current state and to join or create another, see List of U.S. state partition proposals .
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott introduced his fellow governor from Tennessee this week at a border press conference, his words made reference to a bedrock piece of Lone State lore.
No matter the day or year, chances are somebody in Texas is calling for the Lone Star State to secede from the union.It’s been happening since the 1800s, and it’s happening again amid a ...
AUSTIN — An organization called the Texas Nationalist Movement has submitted more than 139,000 petition signatures to the state Republican Party seeking to place a referendum on the March ...
A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
Map of Texas, illustrating the area under de facto control of the Republic of Texas (in light yellow); the full extent of the Texan claim (light yellow and green); and modern-day borders of the State of Texas. Later in the 19th century, there was one more case of a state ceding some of its land to the federal government.