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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Texas actually has the right to divide itself into five states. If it had done so earlier, Gore and Hillary would have won the electoral college because at least one of those states would be blue.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/more-150-years-texas-has-had-power-secede-itself-180962354/