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  2. List of demonyms for US states and territories - Wikipedia

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    Spanish: Sudcarolino, sudcarolina South Dakota: South Dakotan Spanish: Sudakotense Tennessee: Tennessean Volunteer, Butternut [56] Big Bender Texas: Texan Texian (Anglo-Texan - historical), [57] Tejano (Hispano-Texan), Texican (archaic) Spanish: Texano, texanaSpanish: Tejano, tejana Utah: Utahn Utahian, Utahan Vermont: Vermonter Woodchuck [58 ...

  3. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    The name was borrowed into Spanish as texa, plural texas, and was used to refer to the Nabedache people (and later to the Caddo Nation in general). When the Spanish decided to convert the Nabedache to Catholicism, they constructed La Misión de San Francisco de los Texas, which later came to be used in naming the Viceroyalty of New Spain’s ...

  4. Vermont - Wikipedia

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    Vermont's history of independent political thought has led to movements for the establishment of the Second Vermont Republic and other plans advocating secession. Vermont is the only state in the United States that requires voters to be sworn in, having established the voter's oath or affirmation in 1777. [287]

  5. Template : Official languages of U.S. states and territories

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    Spanish has had special recognition since 1912 passage of state constitution. See article. English Plus since 1989 [1] New York: No: None [1] North Carolina: Yes: None: since 1987 [1] North Dakota: Yes: None: since 1987 [1] Ohio: No: None [1] Oklahoma: Yes: None: since 2010.

  6. Vermont Republic - Wikipedia

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    The Vermont Republic officially known at the time as the State of Vermont, was an independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791. [1] The state was founded in January 1777, when delegates from 28 towns met and declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of Quebec ...

  7. List of U.S. state and territory mottos - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky, North Dakota, and Vermont also have two mottos, one in Latin and the other in English. [3] [4] All other states and territories have only one motto, except for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, which do not have any mottos. [5] English and Latin are the most-used languages for state mottos, each used by 25 states and territories.

  8. Northeast Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Northeast Kingdom (also, locally, "The Kingdom" [1] [2] and abbreviated NEK) is the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Vermont, approximately comprising Essex, Orleans, and Caledonia counties and with a population of 64,764 at the 2010 census.

  9. List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.