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:
“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)
“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)