From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!eisx!pyuxll!abnjh!lute Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Title: Re: US political geography question Article-I.D.: abnjh.147 Posted: Thu May 12 08:54:50 1983 Received: Wed May 18 19:37:34 1983 References: fortune.948 I don't know what the number is, but I know Pennsylvania calls itself a COMMONWEALTH. Does that make Pa., and all other commonwealths, non-states, thus dropping below 50 the number of states in the Union? Jim Collymore