From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2008-02-27T12:30:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Math problem

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/08, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Shandy Nantz <shandybleu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> >  >  > Where is CA, anyway? Not everyone lives in the US.
>
>
> >  >  That's California - the very most western part of the country.
>
>  > Unless it's Canada, in which case British Columbia is the very most
>  >  western part of the country.  ;^)
>  >
>  >  (I'll also ignore Hawai'i and Alaska -- one joke at a time, that's
>  >  my motto)
>
>  Actually, California isn't even the westernmost state in the lower 48
>  states. That distinction goes to Oregon.

The48 contiguous states haven't really been the "lower 48" since
Hawai'i was admitted, either. (Though I suppose if you meant the 48
states that aren't Alaska and Maine, what you said would still be
true.)