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To: davikkm
The United States has been consistently gobbling up new territory for the last 241 years.

We picked up Hawaii and various Spanish colonies in 1898. Anything since then? Maybe you can count the canal zone, but that's gone now.

7 posted on 12/01/2017 1:55:00 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: KarlInOhio

We’ve given up the Panama canal zone and the Philippines since the 1940s.


19 posted on 12/01/2017 2:04:01 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: KarlInOhio

The demonrats are hoping to add Soetoro’s extra 7 states.


47 posted on 12/01/2017 4:34:25 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: KarlInOhio
e picked up Hawaii and various Spanish colonies in 1898. Anything since then?

Tutuila, Manu'a, and Swains Island

48 posted on 12/01/2017 4:47:59 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (don't forget to mouse your sisterhooks)
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To: KarlInOhio
We picked up Hawaii and various Spanish colonies in 1898. Anything since then? Maybe you can count the canal zone, but that's gone now.

Well, per Obama we have 57 states.....

51 posted on 12/01/2017 5:36:46 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: KarlInOhio

Virgin Islands in 1917.


63 posted on 12/02/2017 5:54:56 PM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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