Ok I have a question...Are there OR are there now..."Mistake States"...(vanity)

31 Jan 2017 | US Navy Vet

[US Navy Vet]

...an if so what were/are they?

[US Navy Vet]

I will start; New York California Navada ANY State admitted after 1890. HAVE AT IT/Flame Away!

[IronJack]

Assachusetts.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Alaska is, for the most part, conservative and was admitted after 1890. What say you?

[Mr. K]

Isn’t it too early to start drinking?

[onona]

State of denial

[onona]

Never too early :)

But then, there's that whole state of denial thingy

[Mr. Douglas]

I don’t think any state was a mistake state.

[Baynative]

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.

[Gay State Conservative]

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).

[Robert DeLong]

I agree with your response.

[Gay State Conservative]

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

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.

[acad1228]

Are you cereal? Oklahoma was admitted in 1907. You won’t find a more conservative state.

[Glad2bnuts]

The 17th Amendment, if it were to be repealed the country would suffer whiplash it would change so quickly.

[Red Badger]

The only mistake state I know of is West Virginia..................

[Responsibility2nd]

Please explain why you consider Oklahoma a Mistake State.

Oh. I see. You just felt like posting a stupid look at me vanity.

[acad1228]

Are you cereal? Oklahoma was admitted in 1907. You won’t find a more conservative state.

[PAR35]

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.

[IronJack]

True. Assachusetts didn’t begin as a mistake. It grew into one as it grdually forgot its proud history. Now it’s a tumor.

[x]

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.