More than two years ago now, 125,000 people petitioned the government to allow Texas to secede from America. While this petition wasn’t successful, it raises a few key questions and concepts to consider should the likelihood of such a thing actually take place. Could the state make it on its own as a country? Just how powerful is the Lone Star State?
NowThis took a close look at these questions in a video posted to their YouTube channel in 2015. The 2.5-minute, fact-filled review of our ability to stand on our own two feet is quite the eye-opener. We already knew we had the largest land base in the contiguous U.S., but did you know that with close to 27 million people, that means that 1 in every 12 U.S. citizens lives in Texas? With that size and population, we also generate $1.5 trillion economy-wise annually, which translates into Texas having a nation-size market roughly 13th in the world (between Spain and Australia).