North Dakota? What North Dakota?

*Raph's Girl* · 07-12-2011, 10:01 PM

Woops! Time to update those maps and flags! We only have 49 states!

http://gawker.com/5820646/north-dako...lly-be-a-state

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So, this is awkward, but, as it turns out, North Dakota may not actually even be a state at all, thanks to a constitutional conflict only recently discovered by an 82-year-old resident of Grand Forks. How embarrassing!

According to John Rolczynski, North Dakota's state constitution omits "the executive branch, the Governor and other high ranking officials when it explains who needs to take the oath of office." Since this places it in conflict with the federal constitution, it theoretically renders the state constitution invalid, and means that North Dakota has been a territory for the past 120 years or so.

And, honestly, we would be okay with North Dakota being a territory! I mean, Christ, we have two Dakotas right now, for no reason. And this one doesn't even have a giant mountain of president-heads! It might even might be an improvement, given that North Dakota has the population of an average congressional district and yet gets two whole senators, all to itself, who are free to do silly North Dakota-type things like call themselves "deficit hawks."

Unfortunately, State Senator Tim Mathern is trying to fix the constitution through an amendment that'll be voted on next year. Oh well! Next up for Rolczynski: Fixing the other mistake in the constitution, which incorrectly defines the territory's lower boundary.

**Venom** · 07-12-2011, 10:43 PM

This is awesome! It's like the county in the corner of Georgia that got left off the quarter because it technically never rejoined the Union after seceding.

**Machias Banshee** · 07-13-2011, 09:58 PM

Well, now it can beat out Hawaii and Alaska as the newest state of the Union...

*Raph's Girl* · 07-14-2011, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Machias Banshee

Well, now it can beat out Hawaii and Alaska as the newest state of the Union...

Not unless South California beats em first:

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul...ornia-20110711

It's funny. On the 11th the articles were all like "South California to be the 51st state!" next day? "North Dakota aint even a state!"

So we'll see who wins to be the 50th state... North Dakota (cuz it's gonna take over a YEAR for them to sort out that mess!) or South California!

**ThirdMarioBro** · 07-14-2011, 03:04 AM

How about we just get rid of both Dakotas?

RAM BAM · 07-18-2011, 10:51 PM

Wow, they could hypothetically form their own country. Maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea with the impending credit default.

*Ninjinister* · 07-19-2011, 02:59 AM

Meh. We ain't gonna get South California. I remember the zillions of times that they wanted to split Eastern Washington off into the state of Lincoln. True, two different states with very different dynamics, but I just don't see it happening.

*BubblyShell22* · 07-19-2011, 08:57 AM

Wow. That's pretty interesting. They could definitely form their own country if they wanted to.

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Venom Space Knight Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Colorado Posts: 3,637	This is awesome! It's like the county in the corner of Georgia that got left off the quarter because it technically never rejoined the Union after seceding. __________________

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Ninjinister 無問題 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Moesko Island, WA Posts: 14,348	Meh. We ain't gonna get South California. I remember the zillions of times that they wanted to split Eastern Washington off into the state of Lincoln. True, two different states with very different dynamics, but I just don't see it happening. __________________

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BubblyShell22 Leo-holic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 16,912	Wow. That's pretty interesting. They could definitely form their own country if they wanted to. __________________ "A warrior who never fails, never learns."-The Ancient One. "Embrace your inner a**holiness."-Mr. Anderson.

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Machias Banshee Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 17,163	Well, now it can beat out Hawaii and Alaska as the newest state of the Union...

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RAM BAM Hench Mutant Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Will O' The Wisp Posts: 472	Wow, they could hypothetically form their own country. Maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea with the impending credit default.