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state has left the union
A State of the Union address is given.
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia actually seceded. The Confederate Flag also included stars for Missouri and Kentucky even though they never seceded.
It means breaking away from the Union, to form part of an embryonic new naton. The viability of a new nation depends on overseas recognition. This nearly happened in 1862, but Lincoln managed to head it off by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. So the Confederacy was never officially a nation.
Hawaii was the 50th state to become a state.