if you like that, then here's another one; Ohio wasn't an American state, officially, until 1953. I tell this to my dad who was born in Ohio in 1948, to remind him that he wasn't born in America.
Before 1953 it was a territory and people born in territories of the US (like puerto rico and pre statehood ohio) are citizens and they can run for president.
Keep saying it to your dad though if he believes it because it’s funny.
They never said anything about people being born there not being citizens?
What they said is absolutely true though.
Ohio became the 17th state of the Union when President Thomas Jefferson endorsed the United States Congress’s decision to grant statehood on Feb. 19, 1803. Due to an oversight, Ohio wasn’t “officially” admitted to the United States until Aug. 7, 1953. Congress never took a formal vote back in 1803.
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u/SEA2COLA Jul 11 '24
Mississippi did not officially end slavery until 1995. Out of sheer stubbornness, of course.