Texas -- It's a Whole Other Country.

My love for my mother's native state knows no bounds. I have lots of family in Texas and will always feel like it is my second home. Had I been born there, I would have been a fifth generation Texan.

Part of what makes Texas so unique are Texans. A feisty bunch, to say the least.

These folks would like Texas to literally become a "whole other country" and invoke the much-heralded secession clause in the State of Texas constitution. They were so serious about secession that they led an uprising in 1997 in the Davis Mountains which left several of their leaders dead or imprisoned.

The group has reorganized, apparently and is once again pushing for Texas to secede. Haven't had a chance to find this report, but what these may not know is that some time ago the USDOJ did a study to determine whether or not Texas still does, in fact, have the legal right to secede from the good old U.S of A. The answer was decidedly "no."

Of course, many Texans would tell me they really could give two hoots about what DOJ would have to say about much of anything.

So the battle, such as it is, will no doubt rage on.