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Just take statehood away from North Dakota and give it to PR so we can keep the number of stars and stripes.
Merge north and south dakota
North Dakota isn't real anyway.
West Virginia is an illegal state
That's actually an interesting question. SCOTUS kinda dodged answering it, though there's a 1970 decision that seems to imply they accept WV's validity. The ultimate question comes down to if states that left to form the Confederacy were still US states during that period, because that determines whether or not the clause in the Constitution about creating a state from territory held by another state applies. If Virginia was under the US Constitution during the Civil War then yeah, WV is an illegal state.