New Mexico
- Between 1970 and 1990, local activists proposed that the southern half of the state become part of Trans-Pecos (West Texas).
- The eastern half of the state, known as Llano Estacado, wanted to join the proposed state of Jefferson/Lincoln (North Texas).
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. State Partition Proposals
Famous quotes containing the word mexico:
“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)