![]() ![]() But in all of my studies for four years we didn't even spend five minutes on the territories. And in the Caribbean, there's Puerto Rico and the U.S. North of the Equator, in the western Pacific, there's Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. In the Pacific, there is American Samoa, which is in Polynesia, south of the Equator. To let people know, there are five territories. ![]() and has an office and serves on committees but can't vote on the floor of the House. They have a congressperson, but that person just goes to D.C. ![]() They vote in the presidential primaries, but they don't vote in the general election. So the territories don't have the full protection of the Constitution. MACK: A territory is something that is very much like a state, except it doesn't have the same number of rights or the same number of services as a state. WLRN: What is a territory and how is it different from living in a state? But what does it mean to be part of America - but not one of the 50 states?ĭoug Mack set out to find out and wrote about what he found in a new book, "The Not-Quite States of America." He recently sat down with WLRN's Nancy Klingener to talk about his findings. had bought three of the Virgin Islands and they eventually became a territory. ![]() One century ago - on Maon the Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas and Saint Croix, Danish flags were lowered and the Stars and Stripes were raised. ![]()
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