[Modernman]

There's no rule I know of that says the United States was supposed to get to 50 and then stop.

50 is a nice round number, but it doesn't really mean anything. We haven't added a state since 1959. Personally, I would have been in favor of adding Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philipines as States when we got them from the Spanish in 1898. Who says the US needs to stop expanding?

[ChewedGum]

I just don't see the Canada thing happening. At the Vancouver World's Fair ('86 I believe) our High School Band went up, played 3 songs for 10 people in the morning and then had two days at the World's Fair to play. One friend of mine would ride the sky tram thing which held about 5 people. He and another guy would ride it and get in with some Canadians and then he would have political discussions with them. The stories were most amusing, but through them (and things have become even more liberal since then) I just don't see the Canadians fitting in with the U.S. ideologically.

Gum

[xzins]

Not me.

I like the sound of The United States of AMERICA....the whole enchilada.

The entire flipping land mass from the Arctic Circle to the Straights of Magellan.