Posted on 01/25/2020 10:59:01 AM PST by US Navy Vet
Ok here it is, Are there "Mistake" US States that should have NEVER been allowed/invited to be part of our Great Country?
Ok, I’ll bite. What is the punch line?
Well, there is that whole West Virginia / Virginia thing...
This is going to PISS OFF(I don’t care) alot of People but I think New York State is/was the Original “Mistake” State.
They need to be expelled.
Iowa for certain. Gads, what a disaster that was.
Just kidding!
No “Punch” Line.
Not really. Hawaii would be the closest candidate. However as far as commonwealths, I’d shuck Puerto Rico as it is a perpetually welfare state with never ending corrupt government.
Difficult to know so many States would turn to socialist ideology in the future. The one mistake that has always stood out to me is Texas joining the United States. They should have kept their sovereignty.
Are you from Minnesota;-)?
There is no state that shouldn’t have been invited in. But since you’re talking about state-related mistakes, a big mistake was the passing of the 17th Amendment. That amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators.
A bit off-topic, I know.
Obviously you’ve never driven across Kansas on I-70. You can see where you’ll be in 2 hours.
My choice would be to cut Hawaii loose, then partition my home state of New York into NYC and Western New York.
Buffalo proper is lib but the suburbs and surrounding rural counties are full of Patriots. Let’s not forget these long-suffering citizens.
The only mistake state was Hawaii but Puerto Rico as a protectorate was probably unwise.
Simply removing California makes the US A conservative nation.
It should be given back to Mexico.
Or traded to ISIS for peace.
I’d say no; everything had a reason at the time.
The only mistake that was made as I see it was not crushing the American communist insurgency in it’s infancy before letting them morph into the democrat party of today.
If they’d been stomped into the dirt where they belong several decades ago, we wouldn’t be on the verge of CWII right now.
No, but mistakes have been made.
Slavery was a mistake.
Various mistakes with immigration have been made.
There are serious mistakes being made in the educational system.
california... the land of fruits nuts and flakes...
Texas but not for the reason one might think. If Texas were a country all the contiguous states would have already seceded.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
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