“The two eclipses, seven years apart, will form an X on America intersecting at Little Egypt, a small town in southern Illinois.”
According to NASA, the intersection will occur over Texas.
The 2017 eclipse wasn’t total anywhere in Texas. The NASA map you probably saw shows the paths of the annular eclipse of last October and the total eclipse of this April. Had me confused also, being kind of an apples-and-oranges thing IMO.