Texas looks to follow UK's example

[Thumpalumpacus]

It doesn't benefit any of the red states to secede because they're the one that has the most people on welfare.

What's likely to happen in a what-if scenario is America economically crushing the state that left to make an example out of them and then they'd just rejoin the union.

Texas pays more into Federal coffers than it receives. I'm on my phone now, but will link an interactive chart when I get home and such is easier to do.

Scroll down to the map, and click on Texas. It's the big, angular state, in white, at the bottom-center: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011...harts-maps