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Originally Posted by PTTG
Thus in the century to follow, there would be far more states, none larger than North Carolina -- upward of 100, at least 11 of them in Alaska.
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Oh, and side issue I didn't notice the first time, but the largest state isn't North Carolina when half the states were admitted, Virginia was bigger until West Virginia separated in the Civil War. Arguably Georgia was the largest state from 1792 or 1795 (depending on your view of its dispute with Spain) to 1802, and prior to that Virginia again - Kentucky was part of Virginia until 1792, and only 7 later states would've been bigger at admission than that combination). It was bigger yet when it joined the Confederation - if the states are for some reason considering physical size important at the time they are writing the Constitution, convincing them to give up their western claims in 1787 as they mostly did historically becomes a lot harder to justify.