Without a Missouri compromise, what would become of the Public Land Strip.

With the establishment of the Missouri compromise, states south of Missouri would be slave states, while states north of them would be free. This meant when Texas was being cut up, there was a small section of land left which would eventually become part of Oklahoma.

However, what would become of this border without the Missouri compromise?
 
Personally, I would think that without the Missouri Compromise Line, you'd see butterflies that may or may not affect there being that land strip in the first place.

Considering the line heavily disfavored the South (compare how much land ended on each side of the line), without it, they might not be as eager to expand west to secure more land for states if they can just work on the land they already have, with no arbitrary line that say they can't. While there would likely still be sentiments of expansion, you'd have removed one of the reasons of the South's support of it, and might now lean to a mindset like the Whigs. That is, to focus on what they already had.

Anyway, assuming things go as OTL, that strip of land would might as well remain part of Texas. I don't really see much note to it, if the line isn't there to tell Texas it can't have that small strip of land that happened to end up north of it in OTL. Heck, they could perhaps even keep it further north to the Arkansas River. But well, now that, I don't know.
 
Hmmm, well the Missouri compromise set the set, but it was the Compromise of 1850 that limited Texas south of 36°30. Setting aside the large amount of unknown that would result from no Missouri compromise, I don't see why Texas wouldn't extent to the 37 parallel to make it in line with the southern boundary of Utah territory. In other words- why wouldn't it be part of Texas?
 
Anyway, assuming things go as OTL, that strip of land would might as well remain part of Texas. I don't really see much note to it, if the line isn't there to tell Texas it can't have that small strip of land that happened to end up north of it in OTL. Heck, they could perhaps even keep it further north to the Arkansas River. But well, now that, I don't know.

That's what I was thinking, but I though it looked kind of dumb and was hoping there were other ideas
 
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