re: TEXIT Referendum Bill Is Now Official

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Ignoring that as soon as Texans ousted Mexico, they begged to be brought in to the US.

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Your knowledge of Texas history seems to be ... limited.

Texas' first President (Sam Houston) was a strong advocate of annexation, but he was elected NOT for that reason, but rather because he led our military forces during the Texas Revolution.

Texas' second President (Mirabeau B. Lamar) was a strong advocate of continued independence, and he WAS elected based in large part based upon that platform. In fact, he favored rapid expansion to the Gulf of California. (Remember that Texas already included about half of current New Mexico at the time, pursuant to the Treaty of Velasco and the Adams-Oniz Treaty, plus about 1/4 of Colorado and tiny parts of Kansas and Wyoming.)

Texans re-elected Houston largely because European nations were declining to recognize our independence, leaving a young and sparsely-populated nation at great risk vis-a-vis the larger Mexico. It is difficult to grasp TODAY, but Mexico was a strong continental power in the 1830s. Not stronger than the US, but certainly stronger than anything between the Rio Grande and Brazil.

Even so, England was on the verge of granting recognition by 1845, and the US (north and south) annexed Texas to prevent us from falling into the British sphere of influence.

Texas today is not weak, not young and not sparsely populated.