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This Incredible Map Shows Just How Gigantic Texas Really Is
BI ^ | 4-8-2014 | Pamela Engel

Posted on 04/08/2014 11:52:28 AM PDT by blam

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21 posted on 04/08/2014 12:11:14 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: blam
Left out’a San Antonio at seven in the mornin headed to Great Falls, mt. Went out through west Texas up to Amarillo and out of the state at Texline in the panhandle. That took all day. Stopped in Raton N.M. for the night. Next day drove all the way to Great Falls.
22 posted on 04/08/2014 12:13:03 PM PDT by Duckdog (If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
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To: Durbin

Driving west on I-10 into Texas from Louisiana, the mileage sign lists 998 miles to El Paso. I just want to know how much farther it is to Houston.


23 posted on 04/08/2014 12:14:09 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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"Driving west on I-10 into Texas from Louisiana, the mileage sign lists 998 miles to El Paso."

I've made that trip a hundred times and I thought the sign said 857 miles to El Paso.

24 posted on 04/08/2014 12:18:28 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Texarkana to Chicago ... 793 miles.
Texarkana to El Paso ... 813 miles.

Yeah, Texas is big.


25 posted on 04/08/2014 12:21:21 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: freekitty
Its a shorter drive from Detroit to NYC than from Detroit to Ontonagon Michigan. We also rank 1st in water area (41%)

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26 posted on 04/08/2014 12:22:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: stanne

Texas is not allowing the invasion……just the Feds, and some texas libs are...


27 posted on 04/08/2014 12:22:23 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: stanne
Makes one really wonder why they are allowing a Mexican invasion.

They're like fire ants ... you get rid of one ant mound, 3 more pop up.

28 posted on 04/08/2014 12:23:38 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: sportutegrl
Did you ever see these pistols in the Lake Charles Bridge?


29 posted on 04/08/2014 12:24:45 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

I am of the opinion that we need a constitutional amendment limiting the federal government’s ownership of lands within a state to no more than 20% of that state.


30 posted on 04/08/2014 12:26:59 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: blam

If you cut Alaska in half, Texas drops to Third largest State...

Just sayin’...


31 posted on 04/08/2014 12:27:47 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: blam

Wow. Those are cool. No, I have not. But I have been to the Jean Lafitte Pirate festival in LC.


32 posted on 04/08/2014 12:31:33 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: blam

Ewwww, it reaches to California.

Gross!!!


33 posted on 04/08/2014 12:32:27 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: freekitty

From Beaumont, Texas it is a shorter drive to the Atlantic Ocean, than to El Paso.


34 posted on 04/08/2014 12:33:02 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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"Driving west on I-10 into Texas from Louisiana, the mileage sign lists 998 miles to El Paso."

I've made that trip a hundred times and I thought the sign said 857 miles to El Paso.

I remember it being almost 1000 miles. Any other FReepers can settle this?

35 posted on 04/08/2014 12:33:30 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert
Texas is just exactly the right size for a state nation! :)
36 posted on 04/08/2014 12:33:49 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: blam
U.S. Geography Quiz -

1. Which state is the most North?
2. Which state is the most South?
3. Which state is the most East?
4. Which state is the most West?

37 posted on 04/08/2014 12:34:21 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: al_c

When I get rid of fire ants, I get rid of them. I make garlic tea, cool it off then pour it over the hill at 1100 Am when they bring the queen up.

It’s gone.

I don’t know where they go, but if everyone in the neighborhood does it they’ll end up somewhere they won’t interfere with residential life.

But I see unkempt, unattended fire ant hill all over the neighborhood.

Same as in the store, Costco, wherever, on the phone and I’m told that if I can’t speak Spanish there’s something wrong, and that’s from the Texans. NO. And I won’t give them more preferential treatment than they already have and they have a ton of it. And over combat veterans.

Rationalize it all you want. Its an invasion and the Texas tough ego is a paper tiger.


38 posted on 04/08/2014 12:34:52 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Duckdog

Yep. I had a truck like that, once.


39 posted on 04/08/2014 12:35:21 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: blam

It’s amazing how some folks can find something significant about a scarcity of state lines. If the admirable attitudes and values of today’s Texans were spread across six reasonable sized states that would translate to possibly ten more good senators.


40 posted on 04/08/2014 12:35:42 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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