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to aggrandize the states and to make them feel important.

Analyzing it later, I realized that some of these newer states in the west - this, more or less, after I visited them more intimately - do not have much of a sense of statehood. It doesn't mean anything to them. The sovereign State of New York, or the sovereign. State of Maine, by George!, know that they are sovereign. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which is not a state at all, but a commonwealth, knows that it is, the most important thing on earth. This is it! All power derives from the state and they're extremely conscious of statehood, extremely conscious of the dignity of their function, extremely conscious of the dignity of their Governor and of the leadership of their Governor, politically, socially, morally, and in every phase. This is true also of most of the eastern seaboard states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, certainly of Virginia - Virginia is Virginia and nothing else. Certainly the Carolinas and Georgia are very conscious of statehood, and I think Louisiana is very conscious of statehood and separateness.

Texas and California are problems in themselves, probably because they are empires that later became integrated into the United States of America. They were operation units before, just as the thirteen original colonies on the