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(CNN) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't ruling out the possibility his state may one day secede from the nation.

Speaking to an energetic and angry tea party crowd in Austin Wednesday evening, the Lone Star State governor suggested secession may happen in the future should the federal government not change its fiscal polices.

"There's a lot of different scenarios," Perry said. "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot." (Video below: Tea party fires up debate)

Perry, who is beginning to gear up for what could be a challenging re-election race, rejected more than $500 million in federal stimulus funds earlier this year and has been highly critical of President Obama's stimulus package.

His comments come a week after endorsing a resolution in the Texas state House reasserting state sovereignty over federal mandates.

Specifically it states that "all compulsory federal legislation that directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed."

Texas, America's second biggest state in area and population, was its own nation for 10 years before joining the United States in 1845.

Should Texas one day secede, one man may already be vying to be its president. Actor Chuck Norris said last month he may be interested in the post.

“I may run for president of Texas,” Norris wrote in a column posted at WorldNetDaily. “That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not me, someone someday may again be running for president of the Lone Star state, if the state of the union continues to turn into the enemy of the state.”

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I particularly like the part about Chuck Norris. This is a ridiculously stupid idea on their part, and the Texas Governor is an idiot. What do you think? Discuss.

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Speaking to an energetic and angry tea party crowd in Austin Wednesday evening
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Perry, who is beginning to gear up for what could be a challenging re-election race


Do you really need to know anything more than that?

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Lol, yes. He doesn't have any motives or anything, haha.

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We get the best stories out of Texas. :D

They'll bluster for a bit and then it'll die down. Things are looking pretty grim from a conservative viewpoint, but not enough to rationalize a secession. Texans don't give up that easily anyway.
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Lol.

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[Chuck] Norris wrote in a column posted at WorldNetDaily.

There's your problem.

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I hope they do it.
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Hah. I kind of want to see it happen just to seem them smashed by the federal government. The embargo and following war would be quite amusing.

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Texas, on its own, wouldn't survive without the other states. Why secede than try to make things better? EVEN THOUGHT THINGS COULD BE 1932304803403847048U34480948 times worse?

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:nod:

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Lol, yes. I don't know who they think they would be trading with if they seceded...

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