Re: CHAT: national identity

John Cowan wrote:
>
> Tom Wier scripsit:
>
> > After all, there are only *two* states that can claim to have existed
> > in their own right as nation states before becoming part of the United States,
> > and only one of those was a democratic republic (Texas).
>
> Eh?  The flag of California says "California Republic" on it.
>
> --
> John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
>                 e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
It was a republic in name only and for a few days at that.  It never
funcioned as a truly independent country.  Several of the states that
seceded from the Union at the start of Civil did so as independent
countries but again, this was not as true countries as might be
generally recognized at that time and was certainly transient.
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