Assachusetts.
Alaska is, for the most part, conservative and was admitted after 1890. What say you?
Isn’t it too early to start drinking?
State of denial
I don’t think any state was a mistake state.
Listening to the comments of young people interviewed at different venues from campaign rallies to protests is disappointing troubling.
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).
Are you cereal? Oklahoma was admitted in 1907. You won’t find a more conservative state.
The 17th Amendment, if it were to be repealed the country would suffer whiplash it would change so quickly.
The only mistake state I know of is West Virginia..................
Please explain why you consider Oklahoma a Mistake State.
Oh. I see. You just felt like posting a stupid look at me vanity.
Are you cereal? Oklahoma was admitted in 1907. You won’t find a more conservative state.
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.
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.
The Admission of Ohio as a State
August 07, 1953
On this date, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law ending the dispute about the actual calendar day Ohio was admitted into the Union. The Ohio state convention agreed to petition for admittance into the Union on November 29, 1802. Congress approved this action on February 19, 1803, but did not complete the steps to grant statehood. The 8th Congress (1803–1805) missed a critical part of the statehood process: congressional ratification of the state constitution. One hundred and fifty years later, in the 83rd Congress (1953–1955), Representative George H. Bender of Ohio introduced the legislation on January 13, 1953, to retroactively grant statehood. Calling the mistake a legislative oversight, Bender stated, “The State constitutional convention presented the Constitution of Ohio to Congress on February 19, 1803, and Congress chose to ignore the whole business.” Without congressional approval of the state constitution, Ohio technically remained part of the Northwest Territory. The Members of the 83rd Congress poked fun at the expense of their colleagues from Ohio, claiming, as did Representative John E. Lyle of Texas, that “If Ohio is not a member of the Union and we have some illegal members of the Senate and the House here, I should like to know it.” On May 19, 1953, the House voted to approve legislation retroactively ratifying the state constitution and admitting Ohio to the Union as of March 1, 1803. ( http://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1951-2000/The-admission-of-Ohio-as-a-state/ )
Make it 1889 and we can throw in Washington. Beautiful state - terrible politics!
No mention of Hawaii? The natives apparently don’t want to be part of our country, so we ought to cut them mostly loose and keep a military presence there so China can’t take it. If Hawaii had never been a state, the Error would have had to have claimed another state at his birthplace.