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Some Discontented Texans Talk Secession

Greg Flakus

Published November 21, 2012

Americans in several states have filed petitions on the White House web site calling for their states to secede from the Union. The online petition that has garnered the most signatures comes from Texas and was posted three days after President Obama's re-election. But VOA's Greg Flakus reports from Houston that most Texans do not take the idea of secession seriously.

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