statehood

It seems to me that the fastest way to evaluate this idea is to look at how an organization is propelled to statehood in the first place.

Strangely, the article seems to omit this one detail that Kiev is the birth place of Rus (Русь) statehood.

In the 2012 election both Obama and Romney indicated support for statehood should that be what the people of PR decide.

Tinfoil hat territory was granted statehood a while back, in case you weren't paying attention.

Apparently the land rights stem from the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which predates California statehood, therefore the CA Constitution doesn't apply.

Maybe some of the US's underrepresented territories should get a shot at statehood first.

Surely statehood is not an inherent justification for violence; the underlying action always has to be the correct one, regardless of the perpetrator.

It has fundamentally shaped our ideas of the University, of statehood, nation, authorship, race and the sciences.

That's complicated because apparently the Republican Party of PR is the statehood party, even though PR is likely to vote for the Democratic Party.

Then the incentive structures have changed to no longer support statehood.

Before Hawaii's statehood in 1960, the flag had 49 stars.

(Yuma was the site of the Territorial Prison, back before statehood.) Does that symbolize denying liberty to some Americans?

If incentive structures support states, they will exist." Since government is the current default, the onus is on you to prove that the incentive structures that select for statehood have changed in a significant way.

Maybe I misunderstand the point, but Delaware was the first state to be granted statehood in 1787, a full 10 years after the "Betsy Ross" flag with 13 stripes was in use.