In Reply to Mr. Whites Comment RE: When the Republic joined the US the treaty gave Texas the right to divide into 5 separate states. If we made the US honor the treaty, Where would the new states boundaries be and what would we call the states?????????? Charles L White I don't know about the other four but I would have wanted to name the part we call East Texas (to put it in the words of an Old Tex Ritter song) "Hillbilly Heaven" (and that wasn't meant to be derogatory) Sammy Lee