the mellow tigger's musings

Ah! Redrawing the lines is also familiar. While Texas never had authority to secede, it did have authority to redraw its own territory. That authorization expired sometime in the 1970s, I think. A territory as large as Texas had never been tried before, so nobody knew for sure if it would work as a state. It had the authority to redraw itself into 5 different states if necessary. It was a discussion we had in high school sometime, where we would draw the state lines if we were going take that option.

Yes, I'll look for that book.