California/Texas secession

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:18:11PM +0000, agoodall@att.net wrote:

>ObGZG: Hmm... having trouble thinking of any, other than perhaps
Neo-puritanism is what gets California and Texas to split from the NAC
(though I can't honestly understand why those two states would merge, as
culturally they seem polar opposites...).

A combination of "we're not the East Coast" and "we have a significant
economic base", I think...

R