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'Why not Texit?': Texas nationalists look to the Brexit vote for inspiration

• TheGuardian

How closely is Daniel Miller tracking the news ahead of the referendum about whether Britain should leave the European Union? "Hourly!" he grins. The Sun's recent editorial calling for the UK's departure got him quite excited.

Miller, though, is not from London or Liverpool. He hails from Longview, Texas, and we are talking in a cafe in the bleakly industrial Gulf coast town of Port Arthur, some 5,000 miles from Westminster.

Culturally, too, we are a long way from Europe. Heck, we are even a long way from Dallas. But the referendum matters deeply to Miller and like-minded Texans. As the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which wants Texas to secede from the United States, he is hoping for a Leave vote that he believes will ripple all the way from Austria to Austin.