Yesterday, 11:11 PM
Such broad and sweeping assertions as "the federal government will never let secession happen ... ever" are unwarranted. In any particular case, the feds might not want to permit secession, and they might succeed in preventing it (by reconciliation or coercion) - but neither (especially the latter) is such an automatically foregone conclusion as you are trying to make it out to be. They are not omnipotent - and thus, it is not a matter of their mere desire to disallow it. In the event of an attempted secession, it is a matter of whether they would possess both the will and the wherewithal to actually pay the (possibly enormous) costs necessary to forcibly prevent the attempt from occurring or succeeding. Contrary to your assertion, it is not at all evident (let alone absolutely certain) that they would in every scenario. (And exactly the same kinds of considerations confront the secessionists.)
There is no real mystery here - certainly not one that "makes no sense".
There is nothing particularly problematic about this "urban vs. rural" thing.
In the event of secession by Texas, it would be a matter for Austin to assess and decide the following:
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