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Why are VA KY PA and MA not really states?

Updated: 8/21/2019
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Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts officially call themselves "commonwealths," as in "The Commonwealth of Virginia." However, there is no legal distinction between a state that calls itself a "commonwealth" and a state that does not. All four of those "commonwealths" are states of the United States of America, just the same as the other 46 states.

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