Texas

The **Republic of Texas** is a young and new state that gained independence after the 1921 American Civil War, harboring great hatred for the Southern Union despite having internal sympathies with the Union. Spending almost 15 years as an independent country, many in Texas have become less and less faithful that the ideological conflicts that plague the continent can be solved, and as the Legion and Peoples' Union cast a shadow over the North American continent, most in Texas are now of the belief that no one can be trusted.

# History

## The Second American Civil War

When violence initially began and spread to the South, Texan governor William Pettus Hobby swore support to the Federalists, but as fighting reached the state, Hobby began to reconsider his position. While those participating in strikes in solidarity with the newly-proclaimed Peoples' Union of America were crushed, Southern sympathizers turned violent and formed rebel groups with aid from Louisiana (formally the Southern Union as they began to spread into the greater South).

Most of the population lost confidence that a Federalist counteroffensive would be successful, and Hobby began panicking, considering any available option to preserve Texas, even including independence. By this point, before independence, William fled to San Antonio while Southern Unionists and their sympathizers invaded the state. He, personally, held a deep dislike for the Unionists, regarding them as "watered down Confederates", and held secret discussions with Federalist forces, striking a secret agreement, that Texas would declare independence as a Federalist-aligned country, deeming it no longer feasible to maintain Texas under Federalist control. In the same city that would later be the capital of the new republic, William declared Texan independence in February, 1921 and immediately organized militias to seize control of the rest of Texas.

The Republic was similar to California, in the sense that it achieved peaceful independence under the wing of the Feds, and not long after Texan soldiers (including Federalist troops who joined the Republic) began fighting the Southerners. To most people, if Texas hadn't declared independence in time, it might have fallen to the Southerners. For now, Western Texas was secured and Unionist forces were finally halted.

## Post-war struggles

The Republic of Texas remains one of the most impoverished countries in North America without the rest of the United States to aid in Texan development. That plus part of the north, including Houston, is currently under Southern Union control. As the war came to an end, the realization that the United States was dead had begun to set in far too late for the general population, and already the young state would be facing economic issues.

Hobby spearheaded a constitutional convention one month after the end of the civil war in order to stabilize the new democracy, and the Texas constitution emulates that of the old United States constitution. Politically, Texas is the most secure, but economically and socially Texas is facing rampant problems. Elections were eventually restored in 1922 and have been held in United States fashion every four and two years respectively.

### Economic troubles

Perhaps the biggest issue facing Texas remains the economy. Part of northern Texas, as integrated as the rest of the country, was ripped away and now suddenly part of a foreign country. To prevent a total collapse, the Republic sought economic ties with the Californian state, and both countries are their biggest allies due to their shared struggles. A railway project funded by both governments created the Los Angeles-Austin Railway in 1927, and both nations expectedly trade with one and another, ranging from small goods to food material & weapons.

As of 1936, Texas is a weak and vulnerable nation, but new ideas have risen from the collapse of the United States, and less people are willing to let the Republic die out, especially as war seems to be the Republic's only option at survival in the long run.