"Simple math

48 + 8 = 56"

Please 'splane Loosy!

If Texas exercise its form of mitosis, it seems to me that the equation would be 49 (remaining states + 5 (new Texican states) = 54.


Some years ago, someone wrote an article about splitting California into two, dividing north from south at Bakersfield. Or dividing into three; north coast, south, and mountain interior along the Sierras.