As a born and raised Texan, I can sympathize with you OP.
I'm not sure if any other Confederate states do this but since we were our own country for 9 years, there's still a nationalist Texas Independence party here that petitions every year for Texas to break away from the US. I know that we can't realistically sustain ourselves if we went independent, but damnit I still sign that petition every year.
You probably can though.
You've got oil, farmland and factories, so you're set for maintaing a "modern" standard of living.
You've got uranium mines and presumably people with the know how, so you could build your own nukes for defence even if you have to give back the US made nukes.
Also, not sure where it would be now, but I know a couple of years ago someone worked out that Texas would be the 15th richest country in the world if it became a country. I imagine you're still around there.
Texas is the only us state of the lower 48 with its own electricity grid. You are in a much better position than any other state. You texans have to lead the way and show the others that it can be done.
Im a non-burger so maybe i missed something but its always amazed me how 150~ years after the civil war the southern states are still accepting something that was forced upon them. Why has there not been a serious succession movement?
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To actually contribute, though, I think you can become one of us just as America's always received white immigration as long as they cut themselves off from their old ties and invest what the New World offers them back into the country in the form of a strong household.
The other poster's right, though, in that the South received little to no immigration compared to the Northeast and Midwest and as a result is the strongest intact distinct American regional culture due to the homogeneity of people with "British" ancestry (Anglo-Saxon and Scottish mainly) dating from at least before the War of Northern Aggression.
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Secession will never happen until Dixie is more powerful than Washington, D.C.
Don't take it so badly, you'll still be welcomed, you just can't become a true Southerner any more than I can become English by moving to London.
One of my friend's was cracking on a Yankee at work one day, and he got all pissed off. "I've lived here 38 years and you still call me a Yankee. How long do I have to live here to be a Southerner?"
After a few minutes of thought, my friend replied, "Get three generations in the ground and we'll talk about it."
Could have a lot to do with the punishment we received after the first one. South Carolina, for instance, paid off the last of the worthless bonds floated during Reconstruction in 1952. 4/5's of the land in some Low Country counties was confiscated for failure to pay the property taxes instituted in Reconstruction to pay for the new public schools. We were raped, well and good.