There were many 'wannabe states' yearning to be one of the fifty States - however, some never quite got to full statehood. Here are twelve states that could have been.
I remember reading James Michener's "Space" as a teen. One of the characters was from the state of .. Jefferson, I think. It threw me for a loop, as I had never heard of it. Neither did our encyclopedia. (This was the 1980s, so that was the best I could easily do.)
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