As America celebrates its 240th anniversary of independence from Britain, Texas' and California's campaigns to secede from the US have been given a kiss of life. But are they really ready to follow #Brexit and revive their bids to break away from Washington.

#Texit #Texodus

Right after the Brexit success, people in Texas began pushing for a 'Texit'– a Texas split from the USA – on social media.

To explain why Texas should secede from the Union, Twitter users showed the map of EU and outlined the area of the Lone Star State. And it looks rather impressive.

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Others even suggested a better hashtag for a Texas exit: #Texodus, a portmanteau of 'Texas' plus 'exodus', the migration of Jews from Egypt.

Texas was the 28th state to join the Union in 1845, following nine years as an independent republic. According to speculation from the Texas Nationalist Movement, the state could exit the US as early as 2018.

"In the Brexit vote, the people of UK felt that they were paying more into EU than were getting out of it. And it's exactly as it is here in Texas," Daniel Miller, President of the TNM, told RT.

According to Miller, there is a sense locally that the best people to govern Texas are Texans.

Boasting 261,231 supporters on its website, TNM is calling for more Texans to join and bring pressure on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to allow a vote on independence from the US and its "sprawling Federal bureaucracy."

And based on its present day $1.6 trillion economy, if it did become a separate nation, it would be among the 10 top economies in the world, Miller said.

The group has more likes on Facebook than the Texas Democratic Party, one of the two major political parties in Texas, with 211,000 'likes' compared to 133,000.