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The District of Columbia is also one of the political subdivisions of the United States. I also read somewhere that the Texas dividing into 5 other states is an urban legend, but I can't find it right this second. -- Zoe

• Sorry for a delayed answer, but I just recently noted your comment. The treaty negotiated between Texas and U.S wasn't ratified by U.S., further negotiations produced a congressional Joint Res (JR) in 1844 that supported Texas admission and had the 5 states (actually 4 additional) comment. The pre-admission Texas legislature passed a word for word identical resolution in July, 1844. BUT, when Texas was admitted again after the civil war the whole issue was dropped. Today it would take a building full of lawyers to write briefs on both sides of the can Texas unilateraly subdivide issue. Besides, except for a radical fringe, we don't want to.- Lou I 17:34 25 May 2003 (UTC)
  • I belive the "Texas can subdivide" issue related the entry of Texas into the Union: The treaty mentioned above merely meant that the Republic of Texas could, if it wanted, enter the Union as up to 5 states instead of one. But once it actually entered the Union as one state, this provision of the treaty was no longer meaningfull. Incidentally, the Constitution says that a state legislature can vote to split a state up, though Congress would have to approve the admission of each new state. This has happened once, in the case of West Virginia, though that situation was a bit dodgy. --jfruh

U.S. State

Shouldn't the first letter of "state" in this context be capitalized to distinguish it from state? --Jiang 07:41 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Er... Iraq is now a U.S. colony? I gotta turn on the news more often... -- Wapcaplet 19:42 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I looked around and couldn't find any corroborating evidence on this; there's some speculation that the Bush administration may want to turn Iraq into a colony. Looks like Mav already reverted it. -- Wapcaplet 19:53 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Is the formal status that Iraq is still an "occupied territory" that is being "administered" by the US-led coalition? Or something else? Martin

I errored the US is the "occupying power" not "colonial power" over Iraq. PeterK

It is the widely held perception that the American Civil War determined that it could not , though a good number of states' rights supporters assert that the American Civil War was conducted illegally or was not a definitive precedent.

I removed everything after "it could not". The secession of a U.S. State is not a serious proposition and its possibility is considered only by a handful of wackos and perhaps a handful of academics with no grasp on reality.

Two references to back up the assertion that the name California is Spanish in origin:

Both were found during aprox. 60 min. of web search, no other corroborating (sp?) or conflicting referrences were found. What they state is that California was named after the mythical paradise called Califia found in the book Las Sergas de Esplandián by Garcia Ordóñez de Montalvo written c. 1510.

Ducker 08:41, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Where could I find a map of the United States where Alaska is to the same scale? I'l like to make a map for the Alaska page that has Alaska overlayed on the contenental U.S. to give a sense of scale.

I want to add a state mottos in Latin, but with all of my respect I will not do it alone, without discuss. So, How and Where I must add them...Alabama- Audemus iura nostra defendere - We dare defend our rights, Arizona- Ditat Deus - God enriches...etc. --Egon 14:14, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I know that I'm probably going to get yelled at but the United States actually does have "official" regions. They are the four regions that are used by the Census Bureau; Northeast, Midwest, West, and South. If we used these regions we could get regional information directly from the census bureau. Using this system may also put some of the "controversy" to rest over which state is listed in which region since this is how the Federal Government groups them. I know that several encyclopedias still use these regions, but the borders and members of the Southwest and Mid Atlantic are nebulous at best, are often gerrymandered, and vary from book to book. You can see how the Census Bureau divides the US at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf. I don't want to delete the other regions but these should take precedence over them. The regions are more cosmopolitan culturally and therefore less likely to have one culture dominate another. Please post on my talk page, or here. As of December 22, I received permission from Sfmontyo to convert us_regions.gif to the Census Bureau Model. Since this is a somewhat controversial topic I wanted to discuss it before I started any changes. I would appreciate any help resolving this issue. --JCarriker December 22, 2003

I have a comment - leave the biological references alone! When you alter Fouquieria to say American West, that implies the plants might be found in Washington state, which is completely misleading. When describing American Southwest, it's important to say that it's not an official census region, and to describe the range of interpretations (Arizona is always in, Utah maybe or maybe not). The concept of the Southwest is very familiar even if its borders are not, and WP performs a useful service by carefully describing the distinction. Stan 14:48, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)