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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[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.