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Texas divisionism is a mainly historical movement that advocates the division of the U.S. state of Texas into as many as five states, as some considered to be statutorily permitted by a provision included in the resolution admitting the former Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845. [1]
1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
[35] [38] TNM is an unincorporated association under the laws of the State of Texas. [35] The organization focuses on political support and advocacy, and education surrounding the issue of secession. [35] It seeks to have the Texas Legislature call for a state-wide referendum on the issue, similar to the Scottish Independence vote of 2014.
Workers who lack legal status put an estimated net of more than $11 billion into the state economy, according to one 2016 analysis. Those concerns have led some state Republicans to call for ...
No, the GOP won’t lose Texas this year. But when a 30-year party veteran like former Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley backs Democrats, it’s worth asking why. | Opinion
[5] Sitgreaves County, to be formed from the southern portions of Navajo and Apache Counties. [6] Butte County: In 1897, James C. Goodwin, with the support of Charles T. Hayden and others, introduced a bill at the Territorial Legislature to split Maricopa County into two, with Tempe being the county seat.
It demonstrates the effects of ongoing political realignment and a pitfall for Texas Republicans, who risk shrinking the big tent that has helped them dominate the state for nearly 30 years.
Texas did originally retain the right to divide into as many as five independent States, [30] and as part of the Compromise of 1850 continues to retain that right while ceding former claims westward and northward along the full length of the Rio Grande in exchange for $10 million from the federal government. [31]