Americans have had a weirdly stable political geography since WW I, so there is no strong living memory of political geography churn. The last statehoods in the lower 48 were AZ and NM (1912). Even HI and AK were 1959.
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So true good sir. Much bigger problem than the (scant) amount of attention it gets
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And there’s always going to be an outsized resistance to new states solely because 50 is a nice round number 🇺🇸


