True. John Quincy Adams, the same guy who dreamed up the Civil War (as a "cure" for slavery, you understand .... nothing but the highest motives, tut tut), fought a personal crusade to keep Texas cash-starved and out of the Union. It was John C. Calhoun <hissssss!!> who got Texas a serious loan that allowed something like a non-barter economy to start up in the state and eventually secured Texas entry to the Union as one of the few States that, like Vermont and Hawaii, that were States before admission to the Union.
To Yankees like Adams, continuation and extension of New England's political power was more important than expansion of the United States to the Pacific (Oregon was different, of course: it was settled by transplanted Yankees) or, in 1859-1861, simply keeping the peace and avoiding an internecine War Between the States.
The motto of New Hampshire is "Live Free or Die". That of Massachusetts has always seemed to be, "Ruat caelum, We Must Rule".
Texas was a Republic from time of the Revolution.
Yes, it acquired a huge block of land. Which was bartered into entry into US in return for statehood. But it paid off the Texas debt. It was still a slow trudge into what it is today. One of my ancestors was born in TX during the Republic. Others came during the evil days of “Reconstruction” (occupation). Headshake.
It was a very very long time before that was put behind in the memory of Texans. (and Okies)
Think about this trend.
Pack your bags, Wall Streeters: Your jobs are moving to Nashville
http://www.businessinsider.com/ubs-on-low-cost-locations-2016-2
Who can argue with the cost of operation away from the NE US?
Imagine Wall Street jobs being moved to the South? hee hee hee
Manufacturing did it long ago.