Just rooting around snopes - can we take advantage of this?

[T Roosevelt]

Claim: A clause in the document annexing Texas to the United States allowed for Texas to be divided into five different states.

Status: True.

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

[elfwitch]

1. Screw you on that!

I don't appreciate the bad name Texas has received. When I was a kid it was perfectly acceptable to be from Texas.

Just because some asshole that was born in Connecticut claims to be a Texan, doesn't mean he is one.

Here's an idea... Let's take all those little bitty states up there in the top part of the east coast and combine them all in to one state.

The county I grew up in is bigger than Rhode Island.

[T Roosevelt]

3. I've lived in Texas

and it's more than just one Connecticut asshole...

[LynneSin]

2. Delay will find a way to divide it up so it's all repukeland

Even if the division requires dividing up the major cities like Dallas, Houston, etc into each of the 5 new states.

[Fenris]

4. If one could make a liberal state out of Texas, then sure

[Gothmog]

5. Two Democratic states at least

Gore carried Houston and Travis County in 2000. Those two populations centers would make two decent democratic states. I am afraid that the GOP would tend to come out ahead in at least three of the other states for a net loss for the Democrats.

The reason that I heard why Texas has never split is that no one wants to give up the Alamo and San Jacinto because these were two important landmarks in Texas history.

[Orangepeel]

6. I'm pretty sure that Gore carried El Paso county

and I think that he carried whatever county that Brownsville is in, too.

[GOPisEvil]

8. Correction...Gore did not win Travis County in 2000.

Thanks to Ralph Nader, The Idiot actually won a plurality. I think he got somewhere in the 46% range, Gore got 41%, Nader got around 10%.

[TexasMexican]

7. Didnt we already do this?

Anyone ever see the old ass Maps of Texas with the longer panhandle.

Didnt parts of that go to Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and New Mexico?