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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]
The state's growing abolitionist Black and Hispanic populations led Texas to declare independence from the United States during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, starting a fifteen-year-long 'Texas War' ending in stalemate. The status of Texas as either a US state or an independent republic remained ambiguous thereafter.
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.
Here's where other agencies and organizations have grouped the Lone Star State The U.S. Census Bureau : Both the South and West South Central (with Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma)
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Texas: Under the resolution by which the Republic of Texas was admitted to the Union and the state constitution, it has the right to divide itself into up to five states. There were a significant number of Texans who supported dividing the state in its early decades, called divisionists .
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
The state cessions are the areas of the United States that the separate states ceded to the federal government in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The cession of these lands, which for the most part lay between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River , was key to establishing a harmonious union among the former British colonies.