I cannot see it happening except perhaps with Hawaii...if Texas would jump the oil there would probably have a preventative effect from the rest of the USA. Scotland wanted to go independant because of it's oil wealth off the coast...but territorial waters are only as good as your ability to defend them...same with land really.

Personally if Texas jumped ship and adopted a strong but fair conservative set of policies which protected the right to bear arms and dropped all the unworkable "bail out" crap...that would be where I would like to live if I was in the USA. I like the people and have a number of friends there...