Originally posted by Ushgarak
Power is becoming less central and more regional. Scotland has its own political assembly now but it is still part of the UK in the same way Texas is still part of the US.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
Simply because it has been kmown to have seperatist tendencies like Scotland and likewise was also once its own country.
Gee, you are American and don't know your own history. Texas was at one point an independant Republic with its own president.
From the Texas declaration of independance:
"We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations."
That was 1836 and it was not annexed for another decade.
Here is a link to the Texas State Archive describing the short life of the Republic: