States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
One state can't set everything right, but here in Arizona, we can set an example for the rest of the country in how those of us in elected office conduct ourselves and interact with each other and our constituents.
If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.
I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.
You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.