Texas was a sovereign state with an elected President 1836 until 1846, the civil war began 1861 and ended 1866. There were conditions that had to be met by the union before Texas would agree to annexation. This is why the timeline is so long and finally ratified with Texas winning much more than other states. No other state had a President nor did they fight for their state. Today's democrats or at least their dnc are trying desperately to plant more and more leftist in Texas so they will eventually rule it too, just like California and the East coast. Austin was the most likely place to plant all the garbage simply because it is the capitol of Texas. You will find all the same idiots as you find in california today. They even have a small antifa group with their communist flag and their Walmart purchased plastic rifles. I saw a photo about 3 years ago of this little group and all of them were college age with expensive clothes and haircuts and I knew then that they all lived at home with mom and daddy. In the War of Independence there were only 7,000 men in the Continental Army. The colonies at that time had over 4 million people. That should show not much has changed, don't look for your neighbor to do any of the fighting. I don't believe we'll allow some half wit to take control of our National Guard. I say that because I am a Texan. If I weren't so old and feeble I would be home today.