Perry did not say what you say he said. The first paragraph comes from the AP Reporter.

What he said was simply hedging its bets. At the rate the Democrats are deconstructing the Constitution, and as world history indicates. nothing lasts forever. When it happens, TX is a logical place. It might be 300 years from now though. Perry is clearly not agitating for it, just ceding that someday things might come to a head. History says he’s right.

You are exactly right. I update my post! Thanks I just re-read it.

… no joke. I’ve been looking to restart my life. Texas is calling. texas will be for conservatives what San Fran is for gays and Boston is for libs.

We shall gather and start anew. From big one state we shall preserve and perservere and launch our Second American revolution.

hasn’t really been since the Pipeline days. Back then, Alaska had a Godawful income tax, as much as your federal tax, and all sorts of other stuff. The Pipeline and oilfield workers really didn’t like leaving any money here and the Libertarians and tax protesters and secessionists had a field day. A popular bumper sticker in those days was “Happiness is a Texan going home with an Okie under each arm.” Pipeline got built, populations stablilized and the Alaska Independence Party just faded away except for an ocassional Joe Vogler press release. Then in ’90, Alaska’s first Republican governor, Walter Hickel, decided that he could not accept the Republican nominee, Arliss Sturgelewski, a very “moderate” Republican, in fact the Democrats favorite Republican. Hickel is a very rich man and flipped switches and moved levers and became the AIP’s nominee for governor. He won, so for four years the Alaska Independence Party held the Governor’s office but it was merely a flag of convenience for Gov. Hickel. That explains how the “Todd Palin is a secessionst” stuff started; quite a lot of Hickel supporters registered AIP back then.

All that said, there really isn’t much love for the federal government here because they own so much of the landmass and are so overbearing.

Montana would be right there with the Texans. I can tell you that I have heard rumblings about what we will do when the Union is no longer viable. I won’t put up any specifics, but suffice it to say that we in Montana are getting mighty fed up with the federal government. Even our Democratic governor Brian Schweitzer thinks the kooks in Washington need to crawl out of our noses. If Texas is to conservatives what Boston is to libs, then Montana is to gun owners what San Diego is to surfers. Seriously…you wouldn’t believe what kinds of weapons are legal in this state….

in some parts of Colorado. Our economy is still doing ok and quite frankly we’d do better without coastal liberalism dragging us down

It pains me to think what I might have to do to uphold that oath.