No one's going to succeed, they've been talking about succeeding for decades in Texas, there's to much of a split population down there just like here in Florida. For better or worse, we're all stuck in this together, we either figure it out and move forward as a world super power or take a step back like the USSR. It would take a collapse of the American Dollar to see any kind of breaking up of the states, let's all pray that day never comes.

 

As for Scotland they'd be in a rough spot if they broke away, while I sympathize of wanting out of the EU and seeking Independence, they'd all of the sudden find themselves without the backing of the Bank of England. I'd wish them the best, but these days it's hard for a new nation to emerge much less survive.

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