Found via facebook, this link to the Onion provides insight on the plans by Texas to secede from the Union.

The final section of the barricade, a reinforced concrete enclosure containing the city of Austin, will be finished by August 2009.

“These Americans are destroying the moral and social fabric of our state,” said Rep. Chris Turner, who added that he worries when he looks around Texas and sees people from places like Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Vermont. “The man who used to repair my truck was replaced by some mechanic who moved in here from Kansas. Lately I can’t go to the store or the bank without running into all kinds of these foreigners. This wall is the only hope we have of keeping Texas safe.”

“The truth is, Americans are just different from us,” Turner added. “We don’t even speak the same language.”

According to Texas Army National Guard Brig. Gen. Tom Alford, Americans will only be permitted to cross the border if they have immediate family living in Texas, in which case they can apply for a 90-minute monitored visitation to be held inside a checkpoint detention facility.

Yes, this is a joke, it’s from the Onion, folks. But it is interesting to think about, no? The idea that it could be U.S. citizens that were repellent and worth keeping out?