You must be new here, OP. This is a stupid (and OVER-DONE) as a successful Lion de Mer or a Schultz-led Federation. Texas is a distinct cultural, economic, linguistic, symbiotic unit, and absorption (involuntary absorption - the idea that Texians wanted to join the United States is a latter-day fable; accounts from the time will show that was a lunatic pipedream by illegitimate American bureaucrats who had forced their way into Texas's early government, any referendum would have FAILED) into the United States would have DESTROYED the United States. Texas is a fundamentally independent symbiote and its inclusion would have only led to a successful southron revolution (Texas has nearly fought the US to a standstill, if it had attacked allied with other American states the Union would have been DESTROYED) and renewed independence.
This belongs in ASB. Mods?