It’s time for Texas to come to the rescue of the union and split, finally, into the five states it is permitted to divide into, so that Republicans can gain back some measure of control in the Senate.
Texas would have to split into 8 states, that way obama would be right to say that he has visited all 57 states....
Sorry, I couldn’t resist
That would not be so easy as it would also need the consent of Congress.
Art 4 Sec 3
New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.