Hi! Texas was pissed about the toe thing because that glue's not going to come off easily, and the parental thing...is my personal fanon is that older states get pretty overprotective about the states they grew up with/share the same parents. And with that many states, they'd have to help out a lot with the littler ones, like Virginia's case. So the way it would work here is Texas and Colorado, being the oldest of America's states with Mexico, would be super vigilante over Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.

I'm really glad you like the story!