They say that everything is big in Texas.
Once there were two ranchers sitting in a diner eating breakfast. One of them said, "My ranch is so big that yesterday I got in my truck and I never reached the other end of my ranch all day."
The other rancher said, "Maybe if you put a battery in that truck you might get somewhere."

Yep.  My brother went to school at the University of Houston.  So one Summer when he was taking classes, I decided to drive down there ... from the Cleveland area.  So it took me about 14 hours to get to the Texas border.  I was excited.  "Almost there," I thought.  8 hours later I arrived in Houston.  And that was just a SHORT jaunt down the one corner.

It took me about 11 hours to drive from the Cleveland area to Winona, MN.  That took me through about 3.5 states.  That's the same time as driving from Houston to El Paso.

But ... Alaska is MUCH bigger.  Texas is about 268,000 square miles and is twice as big as California, the next largest after Texas.  But Alaska is a whopping 663,000 square miles.  You could put about 2.5 Texases inside Alaska.  And the largest Canadian province is 808,000 square miles.  There are FIVE Canadian provinces larger than Texas.

Texas is so big, El Paso is closer to San Diego CA. than to Houston!

Tejas es muy gigante!

This isn't true about many states: You can read a sign IN a given state, drive 850+ miles in the same direction, and still be in that state!

In some of those tiny New England states, if you miss your turn on the way to the grocery store you could find yourself in a neighboring state by accident.

When I was a kid, me and my father took a bus from NY to California to visit our cousins in San Diego. if you ever want to get a feel for the country, go through a bunch of bus stops from Port Authority in NYC through the heartland to the West Coast and that was in the seventies. Simply wild. Anyway, I remember it was night time when they announced we crossed the Texas state line at some point. We drove all freakin day, made about five stops, next thing I knew,  it was night again. I woke up the next morning it was day again.........and we were STILL in Texas! Lol! Unbelievable.

What happened to Mexico in this cartoon?  To this day, the local inhabitants consider TEHAS to be its own sovereign nation ... at least that's the distinct impression I got from my visits there.  There are periodic surges of the secession movement.

Maybe Mexico sank into the Pacific?
The western secession movement up here, Wexit, continues to grow in strength esp after the last election. Everything east of the Manitoba-Ontario border is enemy territory.
There are some variants to that Bugs Bunny gif.....