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by | Jul 4, 2010 | Western Books

Lost States (Quirk Books, $29.95), by Michael J. Trinklein, points out that 50 is a nice round number for the U.S., then goes on to list 70 wannabe states that didn’t make it. Some beat the odds by splitting in two, including Virginia, Carolina and the Dakotas—but not West Florida and South Jersey. Failed states include Texas’s German colony of Adelsverein, Tennessee’s backwoods Nickajack and Maine’s thwarted theft of a chunk of Canada labeled Acadia. This big, beautifully-illustrat


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