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The only states that have ever been the largest state in the Union were Virginia, (fill in the blank), Texas and Alaska.
Spoiler
Missouri, from 1821-1845
I'm disregarding the technical fact that Delaware was the largest (and only) state for five days, Pennsylvania for three weeks, and Georgia for six months, before Virginia.
One could also argue that technically, Georgia remained the largest until 1817, when it ceded the territory for Mississippi and Alabama statehood. Which left Virginia the largest.
The only states that have ever been the largest state in the Union were Virginia, (fill in the blank), Texas and Alaska.
Spoiler
Missouri, from 1821-1845
I'm disregarding the technical fact that Delaware was the largest (and only) state for five days, Pennsylvania for three weeks, and Georgia for six months, before Virginia.
One could also argue that technically, Georgia remained the largest until 1817, when it ceded the territory for Mississippi and Alabama statehood. Which left Virginia the largest.
An oddity to me is that some western cities (especially in California and the nearby) are older and even got a sort of historical downtown, compared to many many southern counterparts (when with southern I mean mostly sunbelt ones)
It's an oddity because one would assume that the age of a city were synchronized with the traditional westward expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific i.e. one would brought to think Houston were older and monumental than say Carson City, while it's the other way around.
And I'd bet that most Americans think Denver is closer to the same lattitude as Minneapolis
A friend of mine moved here to Denver and his mom, who lives in Oregon, told him that "roses wouldn't grow way up there in Denver", thinking it was somewhere further north than Oregon.
Virginia included West Virginia, up to the time that Missouri was admitted to the union, and Missouri was only very slightly bigger.
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