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| - Total | 62,755 km2 24,230 sq mi |
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| Population | 1,792,147 | ||||
Winfield is currently the 41st state of United States. Its capital and largest city is Charleston. Landlocked, it is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, the Confederate States to the south, and Ohio to the northwest.
History[]
Winfield was part of the Confederate state of Virginia before the American War. Historically, territories were created to administer newly acquired land, and most eventually attained statehood. Others, such as the American Columbia, Southern Ontario and Vancouver Island, would vote to rejoin Canada following the 1957 Referendum votes.
Many organized incorporated territories of the United States existed from 1789 to 1957. The first were the Northwest and Southwest territories and the last were the former Canadian territories. Twenty-nine territories (or parts of territories) became states at one point or another. In the process, some less-populous areas of a territory were orphaned from it after a statehood referendum. When a portion of the Missouri Territory became the state of Missouri, the remainder of the territory (the present-day states of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota, most of Kansas, Wyoming, and Montana, and parts of Colorado and Minnesota) became an unorganized territory.
Politically and economically, Winfield was underdeveloped. People in the territory could not vote for the President of the United States, and they did not have full representation in the U.S. Congress. The Territorial telecommunications and other infrastructure was generally inferior to that of the rest of United States and it's former nation of the Confederacy.
Poverty rates are also higher than in other American states. This has led to criticism from the Confederacy, and several groups in the state support rejoining the CSA.
On March 5th 2023, the United States Congress, in cooperation with the Territorial Legislature, approved the Winfield Statehood Referendum to take place on November 7th. It became a state on July 4, 2024.
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