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Future states from existing territories and historical proposals
The piece surveys rumored moves to admit Hawaii Alaska Porto Rico or create new commonwealths such as Absaroka Illiana Texlahoma and Cimarron. It traces past efforts from Texas annexation and Jefferson era plans for the Northwest as well as earlier Virginia split and West Virginia emergence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
Uncle Sam
Alaska
Sam
Tiliana
Cook County
Lake County
Ind
Absaroka
Montana
Wyoming
South Dakota
Texlahoma
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
No Man’s Land
Cimarron
Southwest
Indiana
Hoosierdam
Illiana
Chicago
Rapid City
Calvin Coolidge
Old Deadwood
Forty
Sheridan
Wyo
Absarokas
Black Hills
Texas
Dispatch
New York Times
Panhandle
Allred
Garner
House of Representatives
Congress
Lone Star
Senate
Central
San Antonio
Austin
South
Alamo
Davy Crockett
Jefferson
Henry Clay
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Northwest Territory
George Rogers Clark
Silvania
Michigania
Chersonesus
Arsenistpia
Metropotamia
Illinoia
Saratoga
Polypotamia
Pelisypia
Lake Michigan
Ohio
Lower
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Arsenispia
Illinois
Pelisipia
Mississippi
Old Northwest Territory
Ilinois
Susquehanna
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Westsylvania