The Economist (US), June 8th, 1996
Texas state officials have begun to take notice of a separatist militia movement that claims to have declared independence from the US. The group, known as the Republic of Texas, is based in a small town in the Davis Mountains. A government conspiracy theory is what unites the movement.
AUSTIN
IS TEXAS about to succeed where Quebec failed? According to "citizens" of the Republic of Texas, the Lone Star state's separatist militia movement, it already has. With minimal publicity, the Republic of Texas declared independence from the United States on December 27th last year. It already boasts it...
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