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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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
Plus there are liberal parts of Texas and it won't work.
Truly stated from the soul.
I'm originally from N.Y. One thing I know, Don't Mess with Texas!
Come and take it.
:^)
Give the Texans 10 Senators instead of only 2? I'm OK with that.
Molon Labe, you mean
Another latin phrase I enjoy is "Delende Est!"
Well Said, LV J
WooHoo! I would have been born in Texas!
Touch my state and you die. I will ZOT anyone who tries to mess up Texas!!
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).
I actually did have that honor.
Oh, you mean give it back to Mexico?
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
There was a war. The Republic of Texas won independence.
They were all Texas at one point... That is until we got rid of 'em and kept the true part...
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).
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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