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Old November 17th 16, 08:54 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Wolmar for MP
On 17/11/2016 21:19, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
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"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote:

Actually, the correct analogy is
Georgians/Carolinans/Virginians/Alabamans complaining about being told
what to do by a load of leftie liberals in Washington DC.

They were not sovereign nations to start with. The analogy is false.

Don't know your history do you ?

The states that originally ratified the US constitution plus Texas,
California and Hawaii were all sovereign when they joined so that's all
but Alabama in the list above.


In the case of Hawaii it is less clear. Certainly Hawaii did not "join",
it was annexed as a Territory and gained statehood many years later.

Quite an interesting history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii

Colin

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