Posted on 08/22/2004 9:19:07 PM PDT by John Jorsett
What would you say if we told you we have a way to add as many as eight new Republican senators to Congress? We could also add eight right-leaning votes to the Electoral College. It's simple, it's fun, and it's perfectly constitutional: Texas should divide itself into five states.
Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution says that new states may be created out of existing ones, but only with the consent of "the States concerned as well as of the Congress."
These days, a partisan Congress would never agree to a Texas carve-up, since any resulting new states would surely be politically conservative. But Congress need not take any action at all today: It granted its consent to Texas's potential subdivision 159 years ago. This made sense, as those had been the terms that Texas, a sovereign nation at the time, had negotiated for entering the Union. One provision of the 1845 Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas, passed by Congress and signed into law by President John Tyler, reads as follows:
"New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution."
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Not Texahoma?
Just divide the pie in 5 parts laterally slanted so that each state has a north, central and south.
Hehe good idea...
Could say the same for Ohio, but I'd have to move as then I'd be in the Socialist part.
I've been looking for a similar map of CA. Do you know where I could find one?
Oklas?
BLUE is Bush, RED is Gore:
From this site:
http://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/
This is the 1996 Clinton/Dole map:
Maybe instead of splitting it up we should take back all of the original.
Thanks a lot! About what I suspected.
My county is red.
Sigh.
"South Texas would go Democratic."
With my most humble of apologies, Ma'm, Im' sure you meant 'Democrat' rather than 'democratic'.
Just extending a gracious correction.
(he walked right past her, said something, and with a tip of the hat, he was gone.)
FWIW, that extreme northern extension is due more to 19th century misunderstanding of the geography than any thing else.
As I understand it, Texas claimed to the headwaters of the Rio Grande, which doesn't put you anywhere near Wyoming.
Population densities would leave major cities El Paso, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas-Metroplex, and maybe Austin in different states.
NEVER
I don't suppose that little red dot in the center of Tompkins County would be the People's Republic of Ithaca and environs, by any chance? ;>)
The left will never accept splitting the state veritically down the middle. They know "their half" is expected to drop into the ocean when the "big one" hits. Also, they would be in control of oil off the coast.
Florida has two fairly distinct sections. I wouldn't mind not being in the same state as W. Palm Beach County, among others.
God I hate liberals. Look what they have done to my beautiful state.... We have got to get them out of San Francisco... it is such a beautiful city... and the Nazis walk freely there. As a true blue CA that gew up in the mountains... we have got to take it back... If you know a liberal, fire them, fire them and make them work in Barstow or Needles... get them away from the coast.
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