Texas

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For the city in Maryland, see Texas, Maryland.

Flag of Texas, which flew during its brief stint as an independent republic and during its time as a state in both the US and the CS.

Texas is a state located in the southern and southwestern regions of the United States of America. Texas declared its independence from Mexico in 1836 and existed as the independent Republic of Texas for nearly a decade. In 1845, it joined the United States as the 28th state. It joined the Confederate States in 1861.

[edit] Texas in "Joe Steele"

Texas was the home of President Joe Steele's Vice President (and would-be successor), John Nance Garner. Sam Rayburn, one of Steele's early opponents, also hailed from Texas.

[edit] Texas in "Secret Names"

Eestexas was a region in the eastern part of the former state of Texas where tribes of hunter-gathers resided some two hundred years after the world wide calamity called the Big Oops. To the east were the clans of the KayJun hunter-gathers while to the south and west were the Makykanoes. The Eestexians spoke English while the Makykanoes spoke Spanyol and the KayJuns spoke a third language.

[edit] Texas in Southern Victory

Texas was the largest state in the Confederacy. During the Great War, west Texas was occupied by U.S. forces, which carved out the new U.S. state of Houston (the city of Houston was not a part the state of Houston).

During the 1940 plebiscites called for by the Richmond Agreement, Houston voted to rejoin the Confederacy and Texas.

Camp Determination was established in Texas, making it a target for the U.S. In the Second Great War, U.S. forces under General Abner Dowling re-took west Texas, and recreated Houston.

In 1944, with the US Army running roughshod over the state and clearly on the road to a total victory in the war, Texas seceded from the Confederacy, once again became an independent Republic, and, under President (formerly Governor) Wright Patman, concluded a separate peace agreement with the US. As part of that agreement, the Texas Rangers immediately rounded up all the various members of the Freedom Party located within its borders, including Jefferson Pinkard.

While the US recognized Texas as a republic for the duration of the Second Great War and its immediate aftermath, US officials privately doubted that Texas would remain independent.

Ill-fated Vice President Willy Knight hailed from Texas.

[edit] Texas in Worldwar

Rance Auerbach retired to Fort Worth, Texas after the Race Invasion.

[edit] Texas in The Disunited States of America

Texas was one of several countries in North America. Militarily and technologically, Texas was one of the world's great powers. Its society was one of the most racially stratified in North America.

By 2097, Texas and Russian Alaska were the only places that produced oil.