QUOTE(Maddog @ May 31 2007, 04:33 AM)

I believe that if we could just give Texas back to Mexico and reverse the 1836 secession, our Global Peace Index would probably move into the top 40.
Texas doesn't belong to anyone or thing with the rights to 'give it back' to Mexico. Texas was a nation, The Republic of Texas, when it joined the union, first in 1836 and again in 1845 after the civil war. However, feel free to return those portions of New Mexico and the western U.S. which are west of the Rio Grande, in New Mexico and Colorado, and were acquired from Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
Texas will be glad to retain Summit County, Colorado, part of the original Republic of Texas where the motto of Colorado is 'If God had meant Texans to ski, he'd have made bullshit white.'