Oddest 51st State possibilities

New Zealand! We would be the most oddest of all 51st state possibilities! (Personally I'd be the most grateful)
 
In an "End to Germany", the occupation zones get annexed by the four powers after 1945, hence:



  • 51st state: Bavaria
  • 52nd state: Hessia
  • 53rd state: Bremen
  • 54th state: North Baden and Wurttemberg
  • 55th state: Schoneberg (American sector in Berlin)
 
I wonder how long before California and Texas will be in this situation,considering that they are now majority Hispanic. Besides, this land was Mexican once!

Ah no, whites still make up the largest demographic group(at least in California). Its also far more likely that Canada breaks up and parts of or all of seek admission to the US than any part of the US willing to join Mexico, just read the headlines coming from Mexico(there are very good reasons why Mexicans are trying their best to get the hell out of Mexico).
 
Many people throughout New York want NYC to be it's own state. Just get the movement to pick up some steam and you have a state smaller than Rhode Island.
 
A good book to check out on this subject is "Lost States" by Michael J. Trinklein. Covers quite a few proposed states. Oddest , IMO, is Albania.
 
New Zealand! We would be the most oddest of all 51st state possibilities! (Personally I'd be the most grateful)


GET OUT!!!! :mad::p:mad::p

[rant]Considering NZ and Australia were tied to the US to assert their independence from the UK, I doubt becoming a state would help that cause at all. I mean really. New Zealand is a country with people with opinions and arguments, not a little piece of land that can be annexed by whomever wants it. My God, GMac.

I can speak for myself and a lot of other people (I'd give you names, but they'd be meaningless to you) when I say that NZ would never join the USA. Besides GMac, I think the only person who'd want this is our Prime Minister and I can tell you he is on the long road to ruin.[/rant]

My picks for US states: Splitting Texas, Cuba, Panama, French Guiana if it ever was forced free of France (maybe by European Treaty, and seeing as the Monroe Doctrine forbids exchange of American lands between European powers, maybe the US takes over Guiana).
 
Surely it has to be Grand Fenwick? Part of the terms following its defeat of the USA would be to become a state and remove the Capitol and capital to GF, converting DC into a theme park.
 
back in ww2 when this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turi_Giuliano was running around sicily trying to free it from the corrupt government and the mafia he implored President Truman to annex Sicily and make it a state.

Also in a funny sidenote there is this one dorm at UMASS called Butterfield. Back in the 70's they wrote a letter President Carter telling him they were seceding from the union, when they never received a letter back they declared themselves there own country. Went on for quite awhile before the school got involved
 
St. Pierre and Miquelon: I think Canada thought about annexing it when Vichy France was around and there was some rumblings from the U.S. as well.

Probably mentioned but maybe one of the Barbary States could've been forcibly annexed. Liberia maybe, if it became a formal U.S. colony. Hawai'i was pretty fuckin weird if you ask me, maybe some of other small islands. Micronesia?

On the continental U.S., North Virginia, New York City v. New York State, East/West Jersey (how could that come around again...) There was a movement for a state of Jefferson or...was it Franklin? Something in western Montana, Eastern Washington and Northeastern Oregon. Also I'd be pissed and offended if the U.S. annexed my country (Canada) but just left us as one big state instead of breaking us up properly (geographically it'd be a mess but they'd have a fair point in terms of demographics: Cali's got more people than we do :()
 

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Here's one: The Central American countries (Plus the Mexican Yucatan) become US states, specifically #'s 51-58. Panama might be the first to do it, then the others.

Of course the idea of Cuban statehood is quite sane, regardless of been said in this thread.
I laid out a good argument for it back in an old PolChat Thread. Since I'm fairly Lazy I'll just quote That post:

Considering that as soon as Congress Gets their heads out of their collective Asses, and the Anti-Castro Old guard in Miami become too senile to care that embargo will be gone and Cuba will be an Economic Vassal of the United States Yet again within 5 years.

If they're Smart They'll want a real say in US policy and the Only ways to do that are to either hold the US by the (Economic) Balls, something they can't do, or become a State. With a Population of ~12 Million Cuba should have 18-19 seats in the House and 20-21 Electoral Votes they'd have serious weight to throw around, same if they tend to work in concert with Puerto Rico(likely #51) and Florida. If they were a state they'd also have a better deal for Sugarcane growing because of the Tariff, especially if the sugarcane growing states can outmatch the Midwest and get the Corn subsidy reduced, or get a ban on the use of HFCS. It'd actually be something of a Sweetheart Deal or windfall for them, and us because the US would now have the Best Doctors on Earth(Seriously), they'd probably keep their Health Care Program instead of adopting the Current system, but that's just fine.
Here's a Link to the Thread.
 
Before and during the Revolutionary War real estate speculators planned on organizing an area of what became Kentucky and Tennessee into the territory of "Vandalia" Robert Sob el in For Want of A Nail makes a big play on this, w/Vandalia becoming a huge territory in the Midwest.

I don't know the details but "Dresden", the area around Hanover, New Hampshire, seems to have been something of a proto-state. the Dresden school district is the only district in the US which is completely independent of its state gov't This seems to be a remnant of a much greater autonomy this area had. Of course, Hanover, NH is centered on Dartmouth College which was politically powerful in the early US.

The dictator of the Dominican Republic had offered to sell his country to (I believe) Pres. Taft, who turned it down.

In Russian Spring by Norman Spinrad the US seizes Baja California and makes it into a state.
 
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It was once suggested that former slaves be put on a reservation in what is now part of Texas. The population grew big enough to be a state. Those who worked toward equality campaigned for statehood.
 
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