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View Poll Results: Does El Paso belong in New Mexico?
Yes 6 14.63%
No 35 85.37%
Voters: 41. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-04-2017, 03:47 PM
 
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Here's a compromise arrangement: In keeping with the Joint Resolution of Congress by which Texas was annexed (and by which Texas ceded its claim to all lands north of the 32nd parallel in exchange for the assumption by the U.S. of the outstanding debt from the Texas Revolutionary War), New Mexico can annex that portion of El Paso lying north of the 32nd parallel.

Anything south of the 32nd parallel...Texas keeps.

Can't think of a more square deal than that.
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Old 08-05-2017, 09:40 AM
 
Location: WA
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So UTEP would become UNMEP

doesn't have quite the same ring.
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Old 08-06-2017, 03:36 PM
 
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So UTEP would become UNMEP

doesn't have quite the same ring.
Plus that would strip the State of Texas of its only NCAA Basketball Championship.
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Old 08-06-2017, 10:27 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA>Tijuana, BC>San Antonio, TX
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While we are at it, give Houston to Louisiana and DFW to Oklahoma. Mexico can also have the RGV.
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Old 08-07-2017, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Middle America
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In terms of driving distance, El Paso is almost 600 miles west of Austin, making it one of the isolated cities in Texas relative to its capital. My question is whether you think it would make sense for El Paso to be in New Mexico. Is it closer culturally to southern NM than the rest of Texas? It is relatively close to Las Cruces and Alamagordo, but far from any significant Texas cities. It's about 320 miles from Santa Fe, so still quite a distance, but much closer than Austin.
If we adopted that mindset, all kinds of weirdness would be unleashed. Beaumont, LA, Portland, WA, etc.

Just because a person has an outlandish idea, and voices it publicly, doesn't make it worthy of possibility. Just saying something - like "should all dogs be painted orange?" - doesn't make it somehow more likely to happen.
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Old 08-07-2017, 11:44 AM
 
Location: Mo City, TX
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While we are at it, give Houston to Louisiana and DFW to Oklahoma. Mexico can also have the RGV.
Who the hell wants to become part of Louisiana. yuck.
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Old 08-07-2017, 09:23 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Who the hell wants to become part of Louisiana. yuck.
Anyone else find it hysterical that out of those three, he was most offended by Louisiana?
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