Maximum statehood, every single region that makes even the slightest bit of sense to have had a chance to be a state (even if the nonsense it makes is greater) becomes a state.

Texas, then Rio Grande, Yucatan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Philippines, Newfoundland, Liberia.

If I have a "justification" for it, I'm gonna do it. Yucatan for example:

Finally, the Yucatecan delegation in Washington made a formal offer for the annexation of Yucatán to the United States, an argument that appealed to some of the radical expansionists and the Young America movement. President James Knox Polk was pleased with the idea and the "Yucatán Bill" passed the U.S. House of Representatives, but was discarded by the Senate.