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Altered states: Texlahoma never made it to a map

THE OKLAHOMAN EDITORIAL | Modified: April 13, 2010 at 4:20 am | Published: April 13, 2010

A new law directs education officials to inculcate the Oklahoma City bombing into history curricula. That’s good, but we hope it doesn’t start a wave of legislative directives on history lessons.

photo - University of Texas fan Ernest Anguiano of Austin, Texas, waves a Texas state flag before the start of the annual Texas/Oklahoma college football game, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Ron Heflin)

University of Texas fan Ernest Anguiano of Austin, Texas, waves a Texas state flag before the start of the annual Texas/Oklahoma college football game, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Ron Heflin)

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Such as why Texlahoma didn’t become the 49th state.

Texlahoma was a pre-World War II proposal to combine 46 counties in Texas with 23 in western Oklahoma into a state. The...
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