statehood

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• Conferring statehood is not a gift nor a blessing from the rest of us, but instead, it is the absolute right of all Americans to be part of our democratic society.

• He became involved in the statehood movement when working as Mayor Muriel Bowser’s campaign manager.

• Gravel moved to Alaska before it gained statehood to build a political base, and you can really only do that once.

• Adapting to statehood would just be the latest challenge, she said, emphasizing the argument by statehood advocates that the lack of full autonomy is a violation of civil rights.

• Since Arizona achieved statehood in 1912, only a single presidential candidate has won Arizona without carrying Maricopa.

• Even before the fighting started, Barzani asked his regional parliament to begin work on a referendum on statehood.

• More than 10 million Kurds live in Iran and Tehran fears Iraqi Kurdish statehood will encourage unrest among their own Kurds.

• Since statehood, its vote has gone to a Democratic presidential candidate just once—and that was to Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

• Failed statehood is what happens when you sell out your own people to do a deal with the czar.

• Every move that might appear to encourage Palestinian statehood, beginning with the prisoner release, improves his position.

• Virginia gave the necessary consent for the independence of Kentucky, required before statehood could be granted.

• He remembers Orion, who had been officially eliminated when Nevada had received statehood.

• By the year 1837 the great territory lying east of Lake Michigan was ready for statehood.

• Illinois filled with equal rapidity, and attained statehood only two years later.

• Her eyes were also on the Territory of Oklahoma, where a constitution was being drafted preparatory to statehood.