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Ok I have a question...Are there OR are there now..."Mistake States"...(vanity)
31 Jan 2017
| US Navy Vet
Posted on 01/31/2017 12:50:08 PM PST by US Navy Vet
...an if so what were/are they?
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: history; states
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I will start; New York California Navada ANY State admitted after 1890. HAVE AT IT/Flame Away!
To: US Navy Vet
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posted on
01/31/2017 12:55:34 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: US Navy Vet
Alaska is, for the most part, conservative and was admitted after 1890. What say you?
To: US Navy Vet
Isn’t it too early to start drinking?
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posted on
01/31/2017 12:59:20 PM PST
by
Mr. K
( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
To: US Navy Vet
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posted on
01/31/2017 12:59:40 PM PST
by
onona
(Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
To: Mr. K
Never too early :)
But then, there's that whole state of denial thingy
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:00:28 PM PST
by
onona
(Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
To: US Navy Vet
I don’t think any state was a mistake state.
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:02:31 PM PST
by
Mr. Douglas
(Best. Election. EVER!)
To: US Navy Vet
The states are not a mistake. The mistakes we have to deal with are the cause of letting our education system go down the political garbage chute and become controlled by propagandists instead of people dedicated to educating children.
Listening to the comments of young people interviewed at different venues from campaign rallies to protests is disappointing troubling.
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:02:57 PM PST
by
Baynative
( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
To: US Navy Vet
Depends on your point of view.Some would consider Massachusetts and California as "mistake states".Others would name Indiana,Georgia and Wyoming.
Although I was born here I could support Massachusetts being expelled from the Union (as long as I was allowed citizenship in the *real* USA).
To: Baynative
I agree with your response.
To: US Navy Vet
To: IronJack
America started in Massachusetts. Those magnificent, stubborn men of Lexington, Concord, Acton, and other towns, who faced down an army coming to confiscate their arms, would undoubtedly be shocked and ashamed by the current crop of degenerates populating this once glorious state.
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:06:43 PM PST
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
To: US Navy Vet
Are you cereal? Oklahoma was admitted in 1907. You won’t find a more conservative state.
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:11:19 PM PST
by
acad1228
To: US Navy Vet
The 17th Amendment, if it were to be repealed the country would suffer whiplash it would change so quickly.
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:12:06 PM PST
by
Glad2bnuts
(If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
To: US Navy Vet
The only mistake state I know of is West Virginia..................
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:14:30 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: US Navy Vet
Please explain why you consider Oklahoma a Mistake State.
Oh. I see. You just felt like posting a stupid look at me vanity.
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:15:49 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(It's Donald Trump's America and we're just living in it.)
To: US Navy Vet
Are you cereal? Oklahoma was admitted in 1907. You won’t find a more conservative state.
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:18:43 PM PST
by
acad1228
To: US Navy Vet
West Virginia doesn’t legally exist.
“New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.”
Virginia didn’t consent to the 1863 admission. And the US government’s position was that states couldn’t secede, so Virginia must have legally been a state at the time.
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:22:24 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
True. Assachusetts didn’t begin as a mistake. It grew into one as it grdually forgot its proud history. Now it’s a tumor.
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posted on
01/31/2017 1:24:58 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: US Navy Vet
Nevada was sort of a mistake. During the Civil War, the government needed an extra state to vote Republican in the election and to pass the anti-slavery amendment. For a century it was regarded as a "rotten borough" that didn't have enough people in it to be a real state. Now it does, but that's largely because the southernmost (and now the most populous) part of the state was taken over from the New Mexico Territory.
P.S. How the States Got Their Shapes was a good book on all the mistakes and shenanigans that gave us the states we have with the borders they have.
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01/31/2017 1:25:54 PM PST
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