Soon after President Barack Obama's re-election last week, the White House has received petitions asking his administration to allow individual states to secede peacefully from the United States of America. 

Texas among other state as of 4 p.m. Monday is leading with 31,975 signatures in support. 

"The U.S. continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government's neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending," reads the petition, which was created last Friday by 'Micah H', who lists Arlington, Texas, as his residence. "Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it's citizens' standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government." 

According to the whitehouse.gov (http://1.usa.gov/TwAheb), 25,000 signatures are needed by Dec. 9 in order for the Obama administration to issue a response. 

Other petitions have been filed for other states, see here (http://1.usa.gov/TwAuhl). 

In 2009, Gov. Rick Perry raised the idea of secession. "When we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation," he said to a group of bloggers. "And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. So we're kind of thinking about that again." 

Perry's office later clarified that he never advocated for secession.