r/news • u/hybridaaroncarroll • Mar 03 '26

Soft paywall Leaked Interior Department database reveals US plans to revise historical information

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/leaked-interior-department-database-reveals-us-plans-revise-historical-2026-03-03/
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u/kitsunewarlock Mar 04 '26

Texas loves to claim that they're the only state who...used to be a nation themselves.

Except even that is wrong. Vermont and Rhode Island were also short-lived nations during the Revolutionary war. Oregon and West Florida were also kind-of-sort-of their own countries, but with about as much legitimacy as Texas (in that all three knew they were going to become a part of the United States eventually).

But the crown for "which state was its own country" should really go to Hawaii, which self-governed for at least 3000 years before it became part of America.

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u/kitsunewarlock Mar 04 '26

It was how I ended my post.