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The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Writers have traditionally written abbreviated dates according to their local custom, creating all-numeric equivalents to day–month formats such as "12 December 2024" (12/12/24, 12/12/2024, 12-12-2024 or 12.12.2024) and month–day formats such as "December 12, 2024" (12/12/24 or 12/12/2024).
The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [4] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.
The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories include the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Separate statistics are maintained for the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States: Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands ...
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Scrapping a state like South Carolina from the top of the list may only alienate those voters. “If you want to talk about not winning,” the person said, “piss them off.” Show comments
day–day: 5–7 January 1979; January 5–7, 1979; elections were held March 5–8. month–month : the 1940 peak period was May–July ; the peak period was May–July 1940 ; (but the peak period was May 1940 – July 1940 uses a spaced en dash; see below )