when MEXICO become state 51 and CANADA become state 52 ? so we dont have a border issue?
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won't happen! you are being silly
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After the notes on codes from the site shown as source, I have also given the details given under the column headings shown after notes on codes.   hence you can get your information from this site.   Mexico is divided into 31 estados (states) and one distrito federal (federal district).\nNotes on codes:\nIn the 1960s, the U.S. and Canadian postal authorities developed two-letter state and province codes, with care to avoid overlap. That is, no state code was the same as any province code. Computer systems very frequently used these sets of codes. Many companies and government agencies have to deal with data from all of North America. The Mexican authorities never got around to deciding on an official set of two-letter state codes, so anyone who wanted to use such a set, made up their own. It's not very hard to find a set of two-letter, mnemonic state/province codes for all three countries with no overlap, so some groups did just that; others didn't care about the overlap, because they were using a combination of state and country code to identify a particular division. I recently did a search and found a dozen different systems of state codes or abbreviations for Mexico, most of which were two-letter codes. They were used by industry groups (railroads, airlines) and governments (state police departments, military), among others. No two of them were identical. The 'C' states were especially mixed, so that in different systems, CP might represent Campeche or Chiapas, CH might mean Chiapas, Chihuaha, or Coahuila, etc.\n\nA new problem has recently arisen. Almost all code systems use NL for Nuevo León. In 2002, as a result of Newfoundland changing its official name to Newfoundland and Labrador, the Canadian postal service changed the official abbreviation from NF to NL. Now, maintainers of computer systems that use two-letter codes as a primary key for the states and provinces of North America are in a quandary. If they leave the code for Newfoundland unchanged, they're no longer in compliance with Canadian postal standards. If they change it to NL to comply with Canada, they will also have to change their code for Nuevo León. If there are old archived records that don't get updated, they will have incorrect data when they are retrieved.\n\n"Postal addressing systems" is a document available online from the Universal Postal Union. Its entry for Mexico has a list of states and their codes. Most of the codes are the same as the conventional abbreviations, converted to all capitals, unaccented. Exceptions are BC for Baja California Norte, CAM for Campeche, and QROO for Quintana Roo.\n\nState      HASC     ISO    FIPS    Conv    INEGI    Population   Area(km.²)      Area(mi.²)     Tz      Capital    Postcode .\nState: Except for Distrito Federal, which is a federal district. \nHASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. \nISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2. \nFIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. \nConv: Conventional abbreviation. \nINEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informatica uses a two-digit code to represent each state. Most of them\nare the same as the two digits in the FIPS codes. In both cases, the states are numbered from 01 to 32 in alphabetical\norder. However, alphabetical order isn't quite the same in English and Spanish. \nPopulation: 2005-10-17 census. Source: INEGI \nTz: Time zone (hours offset from Greenwich; ~ indicates daylight saving time observed) \nCapital: Common name is not in parentheses; adding parenthetical parts gives formal name. \nPostcode: The Mexican postal service has defined a five-digit postal code (Código Postal). The first two digits represent a\nstate, a part of a state, or (in Distrito Federal) a political delegation. The range of postal codes for each state is shown\nVR
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Exactly, think about it.I've noticed that with ppl not slinging around the r-word hardly anymore that all of the immigrants suddenly became Mexican again.\nBut I will be the R person for saying it.Why would we build a 60' wall across the border to Mexico but not on the border to Canada?
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Border states are the states that border other countries as in Texas bordering Mexico or Maine bordering Canada\n\nI think..not positive but I think its also the states bordering the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well. Someone may have a more positive answer on that.\n\nAnswered my own question, no it doesn't include the oceans...the link below provides a map
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Yes. We should've taken over Canada and Mexico when we had the chance.  Manifest destiny, baby... BOOYAH!\n\nqutab_afghan: Insha Allah this [grabbing my crotch], douchebag!
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I do not think that Mexico should become one of the United States. Mainly, for the reason of the people's feelings towards each other. Now, dont get me wrong, and think im saying everyone hates eachother. But I have noticed many people feel strongly about Mexico, and how Mexico is better than the US. \nNow I have my own opinion on which is better, I will not state now, but I think if the two nations would merge, mas chaos would break lose. In cival, state, federal, and legisislature. And I dont see that happening any time soon either.
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No, I don't think Canada should become part of the US, because we are so unique and we have our own currency and health insurance. But maybe the US should accept Mexico as part of their country! For Gwenhwyvar, Canada does not have states, we have provinces,and we accept Quebec and their language as part of our country, unlike Americans not accepting Mexico and spanish as their second language!!
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states which border either mexico or canada, look at a map and you will clearly see which states they are
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No, Mexico apparently is going to the United States..
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Who cares if it's a "state-by-state" thing???  The questioner asked about the province of Ontario.  Can't any of you people read?
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The U.S. doesn't have an official language as such ... but we should have!!  And present day Mexicans have no claim whatsoever over any part of the U.S. ... even the Mexican constitution acknowledges where the border is drawn, and what belongs to Mexico ... and having read their constitution, I didn't find one reference to California or New Mexico or whatever they want to claim belongs to Mexico ... we have to deal with the realities of TODAY ... not the realities of hundreds of years ago ... at the same token, Russia could then claim Estonia again ... Sweden could claim the ports of Germany .... and on and on it goes ....
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Not at the current time, however come then end of 2006  you will need one it you travel via air or sea to Canada or Mexico.  The end of 2007 all ways of travel into Canada and Mexico you will need one.  Check site below!   It would be better for you to have one any way to cross, less hassle.  As one poster stated, its easy to cross over into Canada, but coming back across to America, its harder for an American to regain entry then one from another country trying to get in.   The custom people here in the states will allow terrorist, murderers, etc to come into the USA, but give a true American citizen a hard time.   Retire military get treated like crap, I know I was drilled when I came back from a visit to friends in Canada.  Spend the money now on a passport, use it both crossing over to Canada and especially coming back to the United States.
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solve it all STATEHOOD FOR MEXICO!!!!!!!
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Mexico is a sovereign nation,  They should be able to fix themselves with little guidance.\nWe did not fix Canada and they have it figured out.\n\nIt would be great if Mexico had the same attitude as Canada.
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I think eventually it will happen, though doubt in my lifetime.  I think we'd 'want' Canada first, but we might as well take Mexico first since most of them want to live here anyway ;)  Canadian's don't generally want to live in the US and pretty much see us as bully's.  Not sure what the general consensus is of Mexico, but the illegal immigration issues would suggest that they would support that idea.\n\n**  LOL  These answers cracked me up!  :)  We HAVE A donkey for president here in the USA - his name is Goerge W. Bush!  LOL  Nice one ;)
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Can you imagine moving to France or Bolivia or Mexico and expecting everyone there to be able to communicate with you in ENGLISH? If you're adopting the country as your new home, you need to conform to its customs and laws.\n\nThe national anthem they came out with is insulting. Shall we rewrite the Mexican anthem, record it in English and release it in their country? Bet they'd start a war over that!
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Nop the DID NOT LEGALIZE ANYTHING!!! \nI am going to explain what happened exactly: In Mexico the possession for personal and imediate use of Drugs has been always legal. This was permited in the penal code. The Drugs issue is a federal issue according to the health law. Now, There is a huge problem with drug dealing in small amounts in discos, schools, etc... And because this is a federal issue, the local police can not fight this kind of small drug dealing. So, what the Congress of Mexico did is 1) open the possibility of concurrent faculties between federation and local governments to fight drug dealing and 2) to determine the exact amount of drug allowed for personal and immediate consum. The last is legal ONLY when it is proved that you are a Drug Adict and you have a medical prescription for the usage of the permited amount of Drugs. This means that NO. there was no legalization of Drugs in Mexico. Actually it was a reform to help the local governments fight small drug dealing and to sharpen the laws in order to avoid legal arguments for small drug dealing. I have already answered to this question somewhere else, and i had other info. But now i say i agree totally. And by the way, the persons that need drugs are sometimes also ex-soldiers or sick people (of cancer for example). that are drug adiccts because of pain killers. I find this human and correct.\nSo. Again. Do not state something with out knowing what is it about. In Mexican news there is no big issue about this theme...look Reforma, Televisa (esmas) or la Jornada.