Stephan:   Here is yet another manifestation of the secession trend, a subset of the Great Schism Trend. There is a growing rightist rejection of the United States that corporate media will not talk about but which I see growing day-by-day. The truth is, of course, that Texas could not survive as a separate country, not least because they are going to have a terrible water problem in the future. There are already 30 towns in Texas projected to run out of water this year, and Fracking is exacerbating the problem enormously.