Why are there North and South states (i.e. carolinas, dakotas)?
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As for North and South Dakota/Carolina, the answer has been given. The story with VA and WV is related to the issue of slavery and the period leading up to the American Civil War.\n\n(In short: What used to be "eastern Virginia" was mostly inhabited by slave-owning plantation holders. The part that is now West Virginia was inhabited by small farmers etc. The situation threatened to split the state apart, so the people voted to split it up in two states: WV for the Union, VA for the Confederacy.)
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The Louisiana Purchase brought in many states north and west of Louisiana. MN, IA, MO, AK, LS, ND, SD, NB, OK, MT, WY, CO +/-.  The Gadson Purchase bought parts of New Mexico and Arizona.  Alaska was purchased.
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"Bacwood"? You have a pretty big set, insulting other people's intelligence when you apparently can't find the little "Check Spelling" button Yahoo provides. \n\nThe Midwest tends to share more values with the south than with the coasts. If you want to slam an entire region of the country, at least get your facts straight. \n\nAnd us "redneck hicks" in Alaska would LOVE to divorce ourselves from the "values" of the coasts - I'll bet the south feels the same way.
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was it states rights...that is one in the books..thats not it i think it had alot to do with a power struggle.The north wanting to keep the south in its proper place. Which wud be wrong...i admit i missed something on the subject,i can find out.The north had a little known desire to not let the south persue an industial base, which was growing a  bit before the war broke out.Cotten was king n they knew it,with a strong industry the south could,and would i belief become dominant in the power sruggle.
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Because Texas is so geographically spread out, at any given time in the winter, you could have summerlike conditions in one part of the state and Arctic like conditions in another.  It really does depend on where in the state are you referring to.
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I don't agree with that conclusion.\n\nIf what you said were true, then it would follow that states with four seasons would, similarly, be more progressive, correct?\n\nHowever, Southern California is a desert, and also one of the more progressive areas in America.\n\nI belive you're confusing cause and effect.  Many of the countries in similar regions (and thus with similar weather patterns) will share political and societal ideas.  However, the two are not related.
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[ Massachusetts | Rhode Island | Connecticut | New Hampshire ] \n[ New York | Delaware | New Jersey | Pennsylvania ] \n[ Virginia | Maryland | North Carolina | South Carolina | Georgia ]
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yeah but north or south
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No, it would be considered either a Midwest state or a Great Plains state. Nothing like the south at all.
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North, East, West, South
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Western and Southern would be Hawaii, and Northern would be Alaska.
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As defined by the Census Bureau, the Southern region of the United States includes 16 states, and is split into three smaller units: The South Atlantic States, which are Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia (plus the District of Columbia); the East South Central States of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee; and the West South Central States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
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The decisions were political--decided by colonizers like England, by war, by land deals with other countries, and by Congress and the President.\n The boundaries were sometimes based on natural features--as previous answerer indicated, or sometimes based arbitrarily on latitude or longitude. \nThe boundaries of the first thirteen states were influenced by the boundaries of the early colonies. \nIn addition, some boundaries were decided by war with European countries (or their successors) (the states bordering Mexico and Canada, for instance), or by land purchases (Louisiana, and states along the Mississippi; Alaska).
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In 1883 the governer (Nehemiah Ordway) of the Dakota Territory moved the capitol out of Yankton to Bismark, which made the people of the southern part of the state unhappy. They asked Congress to make southern Dakota its own state.\n\nIn 1889 Dakota Territory was split into North Dakota and South Dakota.\n\nPart of the motive for a second state though was to add more Republican Senators to congress in order to gain the upper hand. \n\nGrover Cleveland as one of his last acts in office granted statehood to both North and South Dakota (who had already more than fulfilled the requirements) but then also granted statehood to Montana and Washington in an effort to keep the scales balanced and send four democratic senators along with the dakota's four republican ones.
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Just that a state.  There are atleast 2 states for each location in the Continental (USA). i.e. there is the United States (a Corporation of the District of Columbia) and then the United States of America, representing the Republic that was formed by our constitution.
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Not 100% sure so don't use on your test but was that where every slave state must be balanced by a free state? As the country (US) expanded new states were added so they alternated. Slave state, free state, and so on. This also changed the status of some states to make it even.
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Well SD is the state abbreviation for South Dakota so if they are ever using SDG it is probably because SD is take by south dakota.  Not that anyone cares about South dakota anyway, but it is a  state and there for would have first dibs on the abbreviation.