WEST FLORIDA
Consists of: This territory (in OTL terms, roughly the western portion of the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and Mississippi, and the portions of Louisiana north of New Orleans and east of the Mississippi River)
Statehood granted: December 10th, 1817
Population: 4.8 million (2000 US Census)
Capital: Natchez
Governor: Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (elected in 2006)
History: In the Treaty of Paris, the British granted West Florida to the United States as a territory, while East Florida was returned to Spain. However, Spain continued to claim the territory until 1795, when it finally recognized US ownership of the territory. It was admitted to the Union on December 10th, 1817, roughly two years before the United States gained East Florida from the Spanish.