At 05:00 PM 1/1/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Tom Scales wrote:
>>
>> Actually, it is 1.57 times larger than Texas .. Ontario = 413,000 square
>> miles. Texas = 261,914 square miles
>>
>> The real difference between Texas and the other 49 less important states is
>> that Texas use to be a country and still, in many ways, acts like it.
>>
>> Tom
>
>You forget about Hawaii. It was a genuine kingdom and then a republic
>before becoming a US territory and then a state. Louisiana, at one
>time, was declared a republic.
West Florida was a republic for a while. The original Lone Star Republic.
West Florida is the Florida panhandle, the pieces of Alabama and Mississippi
that are west of it, and the strip of Louisiana on the east of the
Mississippi, but north of Lake Pontchartrain, including Baton Rouge.
Paul
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