We should have kept Texas under military occupation till more Confederate sympathizers were stomped down, and then we should have redrawn the borders of every Southern state and renamed them.

I go back and forth on that one. On one hand, it would be nice to be rid of them and their fuckery as a state.

On the other hand, were they free to become their own country, I fear what additional fuckery they would cause just to torment the US and enable other bad actors by giving them easier access to the US given the proximity of Texas.

I don’t know what would be worse, tbh.