Happy Birthday, Texas

The Lone Star State turns 175 today. Its "birth certificate" is just as interesting to read as that of the United States (from which it derives descent)...

...When in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication, on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements: In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation – the inherent and inalienable right of the people to appeal to first principles and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases – enjoins it as a right towards themselves and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness...

It's probable one reason the prevailing culture likes to make fun of Texan pride is that part of that pride is bound up with the 'cussed independent streak' that runs back to the Founding generation. But never fear: D.C.'s "open borders" effort to install a different people, more agreeable to government nannyism, continues:

Today's Texas population can be divided into two groups, he said. One is an old and aging Anglo and the other is young and minority. Between 2000 and 2040, the state's public school enrollment will see a 15 percent decline in Anglo children while Hispanic children will make up a 213 percent increase, he said...

Unless the trend line changes, 30 percent of the state's labor force will not have even a high school diploma by 2040, he said. And the average household income will be about $6,500 lower than it was in 2000. That figure is not inflation adjusted so it will be worse than what it sounds.

Lots of culturally unassimilated immigrants, without basic education and with minimal earning power. Sounds like a great base of support for activist government, no? No wonder our leaders remain more concerned with defending the Afghan border than with our own...