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Five Lone Stars. Mess with Texas? Sure. Divide it into five states.
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| August 22, 2004
| Austin Powers
Posted on 08/22/2004 9:19:07 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: Restorer
I've been looking for a similar map of CA. Do you know where I could find one? No sorry, I made the NY one myself.
Also,
* Take the Oregon and Washington border and turn it vertical in the middle, So one state is made from the Western coast area and the other is what is now Eastern Washington/Oregon. I guess we can call them Washore and Gonington.
* Merge Ct. and RI. There are towns bigger than RI, It doesn't deserve to be a state on it's own. Yes I know we would lose a seat but we are going to anyhow someday soon, At least we have only 2 rats instead of 4. Or what the hell merge Massachusetts in with them.
* Same with Delaware, Give it to Maryland
* Carve out a state from Madison WI through Milwaukee through Chicago and end the eastern border at Cary Indiana.
* Split California in 2
* I not sure of the demographics of Ohio, So I could be off, But possibly carve a new state from Detroit to Cleveland
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:58:16 PM PDT
by
qam1
(McGreevy likes his butts his way, I like mine my way - so NO SMOKING BANS in New Jersey)
To: John Jorsett
This was already posted, it was hilarious thread.,P>As a Texan, I don't like the idea.
Plus there are liberal parts of Texas and it won't work.
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:00:08 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Viking Kitties have won the GOLD MEDAL in the 2,000 meter ZOTTING)
To: Porterville
Truly stated from the soul.
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:00:21 PM PDT
by
BluSky
(Liberalism - destroying live's, one failure at a time.)
To: Fiddlstix
I'm originally from N.Y. One thing I know, Don't Mess with Texas!
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:06:01 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(I once opposed keelhauling but have recently come to my senses.)
To: John Jorsett
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:13:40 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Grab a couple feet of tagline and jump right in)
To: John Jorsett
Give the Texans 10 Senators instead of only 2? I'm OK with that.
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:18:38 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(This is my most clever tag line ever!)
To: Liberty Valance
Molon Labe, you mean
Another latin phrase I enjoy is "Delende Est!"
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:19:07 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(John Kerry: Better than Ted Kennedy!)
To: Liberty Valance; John Jorsett; All
Come and take it.
:^)
Well Said, LV J
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:20:12 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: weegee
How's this?
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:24:32 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: Fiddlstix
WooHoo! I would have been born in Texas!
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:25:33 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: John Jorsett
Touch my state and you die. I will ZOT anyone who tries to mess up Texas!!
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posted on
08/22/2004 10:32:30 PM PDT
by
4mycountry
(Lady Morganna, off to Colorado on the 24th, going to stay up there for a whole MONTH! *o*)
To: weegee
Well, at least y'all seem to be moving in the "right" direction. A GOP pickup of five counties, if I count right (San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Ventura, and San Berdoo).
To: Jet Jaguar
I actually did have that honor.
To: Fiddlstix
Maybe instead of splitting it up we should take back all of the original. Oh, you mean give it back to Mexico?
To: Jet Jaguar
Explaining the politics... we did buy that land from Russia.
As to not giving them more representation in Congress...
Texas has a population of 20,851,820
Alaska has a population of 626,932
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posted on
08/22/2004 11:59:10 PM PDT
by
weegee
(YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
To: Graybeard58
6 flags flew over Texas. Why should Mexico get it?
There was a war. The Republic of Texas won independence.
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:02:22 AM PDT
by
weegee
(YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
To: weegee
I know that. :-) But, I would dig splitting up Alaska into 4 or twelve states. The dems could never win the White House and Texas would be the largest state again.
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:04:53 AM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: des
They were all Texas at one point... That is until we got rid of 'em and kept the true part...
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:06:46 AM PDT
by
ARA
To: Jet Jaguar
Oops, I see I was looking at those color associations backwards. Yes a divided Alaska would get more electoral votes (right now they have 3). Rhode Island has 4 (with a population over 1million). Washington DC has 3 (with a population of 600k).
There would possibly be even MORE electoral votes in the region (each state would get at least 1).
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:10:51 AM PDT
by
weegee
(YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
To: weegee
Tennessee has 96 counties. By makding each county a state, we would have 192 senators and 96 congressional representatives. Then other states could follow suit and end up with over 1000 senators and the county by county red and blue map could be reflected in the makeup of the senate and house....
In all seriousness, where would such gerrymandering end?
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:16:45 AM PDT
by
TN4Liberty
(Bill Clinton is proof you to have to be poor to be white trash,)
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