Host Will Kacy answers a piece of recent misinformation: the claim that a Texas referendum would instantly break up the United States and bring war.
It is 2024, not 1861, he says. The votes of that era were an immediate break, followed within months by war. The Texas Independence Referendum Act is a different thing: a vote on a single question, whether Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation, followed by negotiation rather than an overnight walkout.
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