In response to the world-shaking Brexit vote last week, according to an article on the Times website by Reuters, a movement in the U.S. state of Texas has claimed to gain steam. It goes by the name of Texit, an obvious copy of the same play on words used in Brexit. This movement is geared towards the secession of Texas from the United States of America and claims to have approximately 250,000 backers. While the state does have an extremely large economy and could most likely survive on its own, this movement is nothing more than an immature imitation that, while not wholly spawned from Brexit, was highly motivated by it. On top of that, States are not allowed to simply secede from the United States, it goes directly against the constitution. As seen in the Civil War, simply seceding and becoming an independent nation does not bode well for the defector, especially in an age like today, where killing power is enhanced tenfold. While the governor of Texas has stepped forward to publicly speak in his disdain and lack of support for the movement, the fact that it has made as much publicity as it has gotten is an insult to the nation it once clamored to become a part of. Even though there are smaller secession movements all across the United States, none of them have come close to the supposed size of the Texit movement, but nevertheless it will suffer the same fate as all the other movements. Texit will go nowhere and eventually fizzle out simply because it is a useless and time-wasting movement.
Article link: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/06/24/world/europe/24reuters-britain-eu-usa-secession.html
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