About that Texas can split into four states thing

[james_davis_nicoll]

Which piece was to have kept the name Texas? What would the lesser fragments have been called?

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[grimjim.livejournal.com]

Five states.
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texas.asp

Also from that link:

Although the provisions of the Texas Annexation document allowing for the creation of four additional states are popularly regarded as a unique curiosity today, they were largely superfluous. Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution already specifically provided for the formation of new states through the junction or division of existing states

That would be one heck of a way to Gerrymander the Senate.

[grimjim.livejournal.com]

That said, some obvious candidate names would be North Texas, East Texas, West Texas, and South Texas. We already have West Virginia and South Carolina, so there's precedent for this mode of naming.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

But which one would be the real Texas?

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

In their own minds, they all would.

[sraun]

The one in the center?

I can't find a map, but I am told that the five states were pre-defined. The one in the center was shaped like the current Texas, just smaller. The United Methodist Church split up the state into five districts, which match the pre-defined states.

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

No matter which one was anointed the 'real' Texas - there would be bar fights and school rivalries over it forever and a week.

Texans have long (and selective) memories.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

SO...which one would be the home of Glinda and the Winkies again?

[seawasp]

South.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Yes, though Tennessee was formed for North Carolina, and Kentucky from Virginia; the former was a county originally. So who knows what the smaller bits may choose to call themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

Can't be East. East states are not allowed, it says so in the Bible.

The 5th

[hazelchaz]

And name the one in the middle Central Texas. Or New Texas.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Had to set up the Constitution to allow Maine to separate from Massachusetts.

(Why, yes, it _is_ all about us.)

[0ccam.livejournal.com]

The resolution did include two unique provisions: first, it said that up to four additional states could be created from Texas' territory, with the consent of the State of Texas. (more wikipedia).

We'd never approve of splitting us up.