 Unlike many other Texas division proposals of the Reconstruction period, this one was presented to Congress, but Congress did not approve it.A bill was introduced in the Texas legislature in 1915 to create a State of Jefferson, made up of the Texas Panhandle.In 1935, in response to what proponents felt was lack of state attention to road infrastructure, A. P. Sights proposed that 46 northern Texas counties and 23 western Oklahoma counties secede to form a new, roughly rectangular state called "Texlahoma".