One, two, many Texas

The New York Times has a nice little on-line article about the 'many' parts of Texas: "When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton issued her gunslinger’s invitation to Senator Barack Obama recently, challenging him to 'meet me in Texas', the question many people here asked was, Which one?"

Rico says he's been to Texas, all parts ("a state as large as New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Carolina combined, and probably even more diverse"), and it's an amazing place. The original plan was, if necessary, to split it into five states. While that would make for too much political confusion, it's still a viable notion...