Are Alaska and Hawaii really states?
"Officially" they are of course, but the local governments of these particular territories (as for example Puerto Rico) are too corrupt and rife with foreign espionage and they lack the integrity and constitutionality to be accorded any true measure of "statehood" in the Union in good faith.
When Alaska and Hawaii "became" states in the aftermath of the Korean War — and many Koreans did immigrate to these "states" — the political heunhada of communism took root by universal or uncontested assumption and established sleeper cells with strong and almost undefeatable but very artfully concealed ties and connections with explicitly communist operatives in the “Lower 48” or the States proper, so to speak, as well as elsewhere in the world.
Did We Lose The Korean War?
Mary Papenfuss
The American flag featured in the UFC mock-up for the event has a major glitch: It only has 48 stars to represent the nation’s 50 states.
That was our World War II victory flag.