From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Texas, more than you thought
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:01:41 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Sam,
	If you're really interested, I think I can find my hard copy
reference.  Most of the proposals I read in a bound master's thesis at the
University of Mississippi.

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Lubell [mailto:lubell at cais.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 12:23 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Texas, more than you thought

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.