At 10:26 PM 3/6/2004 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
>> At 09:38 PM 3/6/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
>> >There are a number of Texans who make a big deal out of Texas
>having
>> >been a sovereign nation before it was a state, and maybe this
>pledge
>> >thing fits in with that mindset.
>>
>> I suspect that this thing has as much to do with "Lost Cause
>Confederacy"
>> as anything else.
>
>Absolutely not!
>Thats a completely different issue and one that has less strength in
>Texas than elsewhere.
Gautam and Dan are the "Lost Cause" experts, but to the extent that I have
encountered the modern incarnation of "Lost Cause Theory" it has been based
on the idea that each States retains its individual sovereignty, and indeed
should and aught to have the right to secede from the Union at any time.
Again, in many ways similar to envisioning the United States as being more
similar to The European Union than as a proper "country." It seems to
me that a pledge to the State of Texas of designed to reinforce the notion
that Texas remains a sovereign entity, that should and aught to have had
the right to secede whenever it wanted, and that it is analogous to the UK
within the European Union.
JDG
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