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Motivated by Britain and their exit (Brexit) from the European Union (E.U.), Texas GOP leaders are planning to reignite a movement in favor of seceding from the Union.

The proposal previously cleared the Texas Republican Party’s Resolutions Committee but was not successful with the 40-member State Republican Executive Committee.

Because of the recent events in Europe, many believe that if the resolution is on a ballot again the GOP voters would approve it.

“If the federal government continues to disregard the constitution and the sovereignty of the State of Texas, the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation,” the resolution states.

A 2014 Reuters poll found that one in four Americans support the idea of secession, including one-third of all Texans and a whopping 53 percent of Republicans in the Lone Star State.

Texas Democratic Party Executive Director Crystal Kay Perkins slammed the proposal after it cleared the Resolutions Committee on Friday.

“This is one of the most un-American, unpatriotic things we have seen from the Republican Party of Texas in a while. It clearly proves one thing: the Tea Party has taken over the Republican Party. Rest in peace, GOP,” Kay Perkins said. “This should worry every hardworking Texan, because this is the same party that controls the majority of our state government. Just another day at the weird and wacky Republican Party of Texas?”

State GOP leaders have said they doubt the resolution will survive an Executive Committee vote, but members who responded to The Houston Chronicle this week were split on the issue.

The resolution was introduced by Executive Committee member Tanya Robertson after the Texas Nationalist Movement, a secessionist group, reportedly failed to gather the 75,000 signatures needed to get secession on the primary ballot.

“There’s been a big groundswell of Texans that are getting into the Texas independence issue,” Robertson told the Chronicle. “I believe conservatives in Texas should have a choice to voice their opinion.”

Another Executive Committee member who supports the resolution, Karl Voigtsberger, said the goal is “just to find out where the majority of Texas Republican primary voters are on this topic.” Voigtsberger also said the resolution would “send a message” to Washington that “things are so broke right now that we’re considering independence.”

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