Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 21:24:04 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Texas, more than you thought
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> lubell at cais.com 04/06/02 12:22PM >>>
>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.

Bush I & Bush II ? ? ?

mjw