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Article: Tejano South Texas: a Mexican American Cultural Province.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Cultural Geography
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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By Daniel D. Arreola. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Acknowledgments, notes, references, figure sources, and index, x + 272pp. $55.00 hardcover.
By law, Texas is the only state permitted to unilaterally subdivide into as many as five separate states. Since being annexed by the U.S. in 1845 there have been numerous proposals to realize that constitutional right. In the 1980s, for example, one plan called for South Texas as a new state with "some forty counties stretching from Val Verde in the west to Guadalupe in the northeast, and extending to Refugio on the Gulf of Mexico. San Antonio was imagined as the dominant urban center and potential capital of ...