Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:22:36 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Samuel Lubell <lubell at cais.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Texas, more than you thought
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 10:40 AM 4/3/02 -0500, Strong, Lee wrote:
>	Ah, yes, one of my favorite bits of US trivia.  Any state can
>subdivide with the consent of Congress, but Texas is the only case where
>Congress gave its approval in advance.  A 1970s mainstream novel had Texas
>subdividing in order to increase its political power in the Senate.  And one
>of the oddest master's theses that I ever read listed the various proposals
>to subdivide Texas as of 1923 complete with maps and proposed names.  "The
>chair recognizes the lady from the great state of Zavala, followed by the
>gentlemen from Jacinto, Jefferson and Lincoln."
>
I find it difficult to imagine a subdivided Texas using the name Lincoln
for one of its states.  I could see Crockett or Houston or some other Texas
hero but I doubt Lincoln is popular that far into the South.