From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Texas, more than you thought
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:26:34 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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

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.

Actually, I doubt Kentucky would allow Texas to spirit Crockett away from
them.

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