God Help Texas if it decides to fight for its 'independence' by armed force again. That will end just like all the other times it's been tried, people will die, there will be a major hue and outcry and in 30 years people will have forgotten it as utterly as the Garamantes. OTOH, I'm not so sure Mexico needs a petro-state with the usual fundie overtones that means to add to the destabilization caused by the Drug War there. OTOOH, the Cartels v. Neo-Confederate assclowns......