In a message dated 8/23/02 4:10:35 PM Central Daylight Time, braisl@madisontelco.com writes: > Ahem, I thought Texas originally was part of Mexico??? I'm not a Texan but I think I might know. There were Americans living there and at some point they wanted to secede from their country. Mexico said no, but in that case the government did not win. Texan's is this close to right? William