Splittin' Texas

This is the typical "What If" paper which describes all of the possibilities of splitting or removing Texas and/or California from the union, and the effects it would have on the United States as a whole in terms of the electoral college and the addition of democratic or republican delegates. The Author, Mark Steins, explores in detail each possibility and by the end seems to decide that the way the states are now is best suit for our voting districts.
Stein explains that if Texas were to split into 5 states that most likely ten more republican Senators would be elected causing "Republican control of the Senate's agenda (to) be airtight today." Another benefit for the Republican party is the many democratic delegates that would be lost if California and all of its predicted states to join it were to leave the United States.
Overall if anything were to have happened with Texas or California the results would have been good for the Republicans.
This is an interesting paper for a columnist to write because it contains no opinions. Stein neither claims or disclaims whether or not he would agree with dividing Texas or getting rid of California. This paper is merely a short little history lessons with little anecdotal "what-ifs" thrown in. I personally feel that the way the United States is with a big Texas and a California has seemed to work out well with balancing the Democrat and the Republican votes.