This is a list of historic regions of the United States.
Read more about Historic Regions Of The United States: Independent Entities Later Wholly Admitted To The Union, Regions Purchased From Foreign Powers, Regions Annexed From or Ceded By Foreign Powers, Regions Ceded To, Ceded By or Purchased From Native American Tribes, State Cessions To / From Other States, Territories or The Federal Government, Former Organized Territories, Internal United States Land Grants, Cessions, Districts, Departments, Claims and Settlements, Possessions and Overseas Territories Subsequently Retroceded, Functioning But Non-sanctioned Territories, Proclaimed But Non-extant Entities, Regional Nicknames
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“When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,
And of Priapus in the shrubbery
Gaping at the lady in the swing.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Nature seems to have taken a particular Care to disseminate her Blessings among the different Regions of the World, with an Eye to this mutual Intercourse and Traffick among Mankind, that the Natives of the several Parts of the Globe might have a kind of Dependance [sic] upon one another, and be united together by their common Interest.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Colonel “Bat” Guano: Okay, I’m going to get your money for you. But if you don’t get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what’s going to happen to you?
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What?
Colonel “Bat” Guano: You’re going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)