http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/2009/04/20/nothing-secedes-like-texas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nothing-secedes-like-texas Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:53:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/2009/04/20/nothing-secedes-like-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Brendan Wolfe Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:05:09 +0000 http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/?p=281#comment-94 Not at all. Just for the sake of this forum, I wanted you to put that into words. Thanks again. Not at all. Just for the sake of this forum, I wanted you to put that into words. Thanks again.

]]> http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/2009/04/20/nothing-secedes-like-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-93 atheist Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:18:53 +0000 http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/?p=281#comment-93 Brendan, I just mean that, given time, a long economic crisis, and a polarized public, it seems to me that statements like Perry's could find expression as violence either against citizens by secessionists or against people in a region with a secessionist movement. It is even possible that some group could try to seceede from the US. Do these things sound impossible to you? Brendan, I just mean that, given time, a long economic crisis, and a polarized public, it seems to me that statements like Perry’s could find expression as violence either against citizens by secessionists or against people in a region with a secessionist movement. It is even possible that some group could try to seceede from the US. Do these things sound impossible to you?

]]> http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/2009/04/20/nothing-secedes-like-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Brendan Wolfe Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:23:44 +0000 http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/?p=281#comment-92 Atheist, thanks for the comment. But it's hard to know "what people don't seem to get" unless you actually come out and say it. What are these "actual consequences" you speak of? Atheist, thanks for the comment. But it’s hard to know “what people don’t seem to get” unless you actually come out and say it. What are these “actual consequences” you speak of?

]]> http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/2009/04/20/nothing-secedes-like-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-91 atheist Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:09:23 +0000 http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/?p=281#comment-91 Perry may not explicitly mention secession, but that's the obvious subtext. He almost surely does not intend to start some kind of secession from the USA, only to rile up his fans and get some Texans thinking angrily. What people don't seem to get is that, this kind of talk could have actual consequences down the road. Perry may not explicitly mention secession, but that’s the obvious subtext. He almost surely does not intend to start some kind of secession from the USA, only to rile up his fans and get some Texans thinking angrily. What people don’t seem to get is that, this kind of talk could have actual consequences down the road.

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