File talk:US states by date of statehood3.gif

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Pic of the day on July 4? Good timing! =) Jumping cheese 08:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Speed

Way too slow. 69.255.38.193 19:11, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

slightly innacurate

This doesn't take into account border changes (i.e. states that split into two, such as Virginia and West Virginia, or states that lost or gained territory). The use of present day borders is deceiving. Also, why can't this be a movie file? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asmeurer (talk • contribs)

Take a look at the image summary. It's explained there. =) Jumping cheese 07:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Missing Maine

A minor correction - Maine does not receive the name of it's state when it is first colored in properly. It is colored in right after MA, but doesn't get labeled until WAY later in the animation. I don't know why, but it should be fixed. Otherwise, cool. Zakolantern 16:42, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

That's because Maine used to be a part of Massachusetts. It then was made a separate state. One 21:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Since Maine is done that way, shouldn't Kentucky and Tennessee be handled the same way? 68.46.43.198 (talk) 05:35, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Maine succeded from massachusetts to be more accurate

I agree with 68.46.43.198; if Maine and West Virginia are shown as being part of Massachusetts and Virginia respectively until their admittance, shouldn't Kentucky and Tennessee also be shown as parts of Virginia and North Carolina in the same fashion? Paxsimius (talk) 17:43, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Definitely agree with 68.46.43.198 and Paxsimius. For consistency, Virginia/Kentucky and North Carolina/Tennessee should be colored in simultaneously, just as is currently being done for Massachusetts/Maine and Virginia/West Virginia. (I might be bold if I knew how make these changes myself.) ~ Quacks Like a Duck (talk) 22:08, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Confederate states

Haven't the confederate states been out of the union temporarily? This map doesn't mention that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TRBlom (talk • contribs) 18:14, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

According to a U.S. Supreme Court case following the conclusion of the Civil War, the states never had the right to secede and never actually did. (Can't recall the name of the court case itself, but I'm certain it has an article in Wikipedia.) ~ Quacks Like a Duck (talk) 22:11, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

While it may be true that the SCOTUS ruled they were never "really" out, they were effectively out during the civil war, given that people weren't grudgingly cooperating- they were actively resisting the Union. Perhaps the GIF would benefit from coloring seceded- or states that claim to have seceded- in a different color? Perhaps a paler blue? It would make the GIF more widely useful, presumably, and provide context- for example, you can't tell why we suddenly have West Virginia without seeing that Normal Virginia seceded around the same time. Hppavilion1 (talk) 19:17, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Static?

Why is the current version of this image not animated?--Hjal (talk) 07:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Looks animated to me... —Keenan Pepper 19:02, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

All of the prior versions are animated for me, as are their thumbs. But the current image and its thumb are not. I'm using IE 8.0 on Vista.--Hjal (talk) 19:46, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

That's weird. For me (Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu) the current version is animated, but its thumbs are not. Can you confirm that you're looking at the original resolution of the image (it says "No higher resolution available."), and it's still not animated? —Keenan Pepper 07:29, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

I clicked through to the full resolution and that did work. (Thought I did that before--guess not.) However, none of the embedded images work, including the one on the file page and those on the four of the articles, list, and category pages that I checked where it is used at a reduced size.--Hjal (talk) 18:38, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

"date of statehood" is silly

"date of statehood" is silly. The first 13 are by date of ratification of the Constitution, and that is not a "date of statehood": they were already states before ratifying the Constitution. And some states (Vermont and Texas) were already states before their admission to the Union; they did not achieve statehood upon admission. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:46, 25 October 2014 (UTC)