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Let's get right to it.  I have been promising the history of Texas in multiple missives since I first learned of the portal loophole in the Vitalnet whereby I can communicate with you from the year 2084 via Facebook status update.  Of course, what is "history" for me hasn't yet happened for you back in 2016.  Know this -- Texas no longer exists -- but it did take several stages to get there.  First, it did succeed in seceding in the confusion after the New Madrid Quake of 2023. But with America involved in its own trouble splitting between East and West with the new dividing line drawn by nature, it ended up aligning with Mexico economically for about a decade.  This tore the state formerly known as Texas in two, and a civil war between the North and South ensued.  After much death and destruction (it turns out that there were a LOT of guns there), a straight line was drawn across from El Paso all the way through what was left of  Louisiana to the expanded Bay of Mississippi, which put Dallas in what was now called South Oklahoma.  The southern part of Texas was heavily affected by the rising waters -- the same ones that made New Orleans into New Atlantis, flooded Houston forever and put San Antonio and Austin directly on the Gulf.  Finally, the southern part of Texas was annexed into the Chapo-Escobar Archipelago (lands that were once Mexico on down south to Colombia).  Ironically, one of the first things that government did was build a wall between their lands and the new South Oklahoma.  And *that's* a lot of information to absorb ... so I leave you until the last day of the month next ... signing off until then:  t1a7n72.lif.