Sort of ironic that here we are talking about the time that Texas became an independent from Mexico, and became a republic, right at the same time that there’s a big conflict right on the Texas - Mexico border, and Texas is apparently resisting the US federal government’s efforts to open the border to whatever drug-smuggling and human trafficking invaders want to walk in.  I’ll have to come back to that in a bit.  

Anyway, this episode is about the Republic of Texas.  Texas is not the only state to have been a Republic before it became a state.  Vermont was also a republic, from 1777 to 1791, when it became the 14th state admitted to the Union.  But no other country recognized Vermont as an independent country, however.  Hawaii was also an independent country before it was annexed by the US government in 1898.  Hawaii, by the way, did not want to be annexed.  

But we are talking about Texas.  Texas has a bit of a unique history, and as you may have noticed, Texans are quite proud of it.   So Texas gets its own episode, the only state that gets its own episode.  Well, I guess you could count Athens, which was a city state, which got its own episode back in episode 9, but none of the other US states get their own episode.  Sorry, Oklahoma. 

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