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Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, also. Hardly cheating. They are part of the United States.
by JJMcJ 3y ago
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, also.
Hardly cheating. They are part of the United States.
- ceejayoz 3y agoThis gets complicated. State versus non-state, incorporated versus unincorporated territories, etc. Hawaii's an easy "yes" answer. American Samoa isn't by several possible definitions.
- JJMcJ 3y agoI'm not disagreeing with you as I write this, but there are many people who act like Hawaii is some kind of obscure appendage instead of being a state just like the other 49 states. Puerto Rico is as close to a state as it's possible to be without actually being a state.
- delecti 3y agoApologies, because I was very unclear with my wording. I didn't mean to imply anything about areas outside the lower 48 being "less American", just that the total population outside the lower 48 is such a small fraction of the total. The US has bases and embassies all around the world which are full of people who are just as American as anyone, but if [1] this article is to be believed, over 99% of Americans are in the lower 48. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States