Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTrump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canadawww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down19
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minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 days agoAnd the people who live there don’t have representation in Congress, but that’s not the point. The point is that it’s not a state. Just “being a possession of the United States” doesn’t confer statehood.
minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoyes but again its not typical it was a very specific thing. The land had belonged to two different states. the guam, puerto rico, us virgin islands are similar but dc is in on way similar.
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoAlaska was purchased by the US in 1867. It didn’t get statehood until 1959. Being a possession of the United States of America does not automatically make it a state.
minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agotrue but its basically a bureaucracy thing at that point. as long as the it has a populace and they seek statehood its going to happen.
And the people who live there don’t have representation in Congress, but that’s not the point.
The point is that it’s not a state. Just “being a possession of the United States” doesn’t confer statehood.
yes but again its not typical it was a very specific thing. The land had belonged to two different states. the guam, puerto rico, us virgin islands are similar but dc is in on way similar.
Alaska was purchased by the US in 1867. It didn’t get statehood until 1959.
Being a possession of the United States of America does not automatically make it a state.
true but its basically a bureaucracy thing at that point. as long as the it has a populace and they seek statehood its going to happen.