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"It was about States' Rights!"
"Yeah, a State's Right to what, exactly?"
The top chunk missing from Texas shows pretty decisively how important that "right" was to them.
I guess I'm unfamiliar with this story.
The Compromise of 1850 said that no state above 36° latitude could be a slave state. At the time Texas extended all the way to modern day Wyoming. In order to remain a slave state they gave up all the land north of that. This is why Oklahoma has a narrow panhandle now.
Slavery was prohibited north of 36°30′ latitude by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. So Texas just gave the land north of that to Oklahoma to keep slavery legal.
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