He instructed the governmental oversight committee to study the implications of adding to Texas “one or more contiguous counties of New Mexico” and the process to do so, after welcoming a proposal out of New Mexico to allow its counties to band together and secede. While the Texas-New Mexico boundary is unlikely to shift next year, the proposal will likely appeal to pro-secessionists in Texas, some of whom are among Burrows’ conservative skeptics.
Conservatives know secession from the country is illegal so their politicians find a slightly greyer area - states seceding to other states - to start planting the seed into their base’s heads. They then cultivate the plant as vigorously as possible and by the time someone looks up the law, it’s too late - the idea has been thoroughly rooted. This is one of their most time-honored strategies.
Then Houston joins California and out comes the surprised Pikachu.