When the United States declared independence from Great Britain in 1776, it inspired a series of revolutions in Europe around the world.

Now, Britain may be exporting the desire to live in freedom back to the United States.

The United Kingdom will vote tomorrow on whether to leave the European Union after 43 years as a member, denying the EU the right to pass laws on issues like trade and immigration from Brussels. The strategy for a British exit from the international governing body is sometimes called “Brexit.”

And it has inspired some Texans to eye the highly controversial idea of secession themselves.

Is the only way to solve America’s worsening problems of taxes, cultural and social issues, and ever-greater national debt to declare independence from the Obama administration and start over?

“There are a lot of people asking, if Brexit why not ‘Texit’?” said Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement. He said the arguments UKIP party leader Nigel Farange uses for Brexit are no different than the ones he uses for Texas independence, except for his accent.

A lot of Brits agree. One of them is Lord Christopher Monckton, a former adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who is known for his outspoken opposition to global warming theories.

He sees America pulling apart in a perpetual divide between “red states” and “blue states” over the most fundamental issues, including the right to life, the meaning of marriage, whether America has meaningful borders and a common culture, and whether people work for a living or wait on the government to dole out their daily bread.

“Unquestionably, the quickest solution to this problem for Texas is to exercise the right of secession, which instantly cuts off altogether the power of the federal government to interfere in Texan affairs,” Lord Monckton said.

Independence would allow Texas to discourage illegal immigrants and domestic entitlements by “paying lower welfare rates than the Union pays,” he said.

A lot of Texans think that makes sense. Like in England, people in the Lone Star State have been chafing at a far-away government that seems increasingly hostile toward its people for years.

In 2009, then-Governor Rick Perry said he could not see the state leaving the union at that time – but he warned, “If Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what may came out of that.”

After seven years of the Obama administration, led by a president who promised to bring Americans together, many Americans consider the country more divided and disunited than ever.

In 2009, 18 percent of Texans would have voted to secede. That swelled to 36 percent by 2014, with 46 percent opposed, according to a Reuters poll.

In the past year, 10 county Republican Party chapters have endorsed a motion to “”hold a non-binding referendum asking the people of Texas to decide on whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”

Last month, the state GOP narrowly voted down the resolution.

Unlike most other states, the Republic of Texas was an independent nation for nine years, between winning its independence from Mexico in 1836 and joining the union in 1845.

With a GDP of $1.65 trillion, it would be the world’s 12th largest economy, between Canada and Australia. Its population would make it the 47th largest in the world.

Some see Texas becoming an independent nation – or possibly the capital of a new nation of red states, if Hillary Clinton wins in November.

But the right to secede is highly controversial.

Contrary to popular myth, the state constitution does not retain the right of Texas to secede. And many legal scholars would say the question of leaving the Union was settled in 1865 after the Civil War ended. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, once said that “no state, upon its own mere notion, can lawfully get out of the Union” – a view of perpetual union most still hold.

But one group dedicated to secession says the War Between the States “only affirmed that violent coercion can be used – even by governments (if unrestrained) – to rob men of their very lives, liberty, and property.”

That’s why Miller and his allies are closely watching what happens in London tomorrow. If the nation cuts ties with the EU, it will prove that a large, prosperous nation can voluntarily exit a socialistic, globalist government of its own free will.

The British people are split evenly, with 44 percent supporting the EU and 43 percent favoring withdrawal, according to The Economist’s average of polls.

First Brussels, then D.C.? That’s what Lord Monckton hopes.

“Will the people of Texas find the courage to break free and establish a libertarian paradise in the Lone Star State? I pray that they will,” he said.

— The Horn editorial team

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