Re:A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned
by mcherm on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:16PM
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If you REALLY want to be picky, there are 48 states, 2 commonwealths, and the District of Columbia, not to mention a wide variety of territories and other regions.
But that's just naming. My point is that these policies are set at the "state" level (even for things that aren't states) or sometimes lower than that.
That would be truly remarkable, given that there are only 50 states (the District of Columbia is not a state). I don't know if each U.S. federal polity is governed by different title rules, but it wouldn't surprise me, since areas such as American Samoa, Puerto Rico & Washington, D.C. have radically different histories: American Samoa was ceded by her native rulers; Puerto Rico was conquered from Spain & the District of Columbia was ceded by Maryland, ultimately from land granted by a royal English charter.
I think it's important to note because the United States are more complex than commonly understood.