Why is this a state?
>>57417302
Because they want to be.
>>57417302
puritans were insufferable
They needed 50 states in total
>>57417349
Tiny country standing up for a tiny state.
>Rhode Island
>It's not even an island
>>57417526
>>57417578
rhode island was one of the first colonies founded though. it was founded by a catholic woman who was expelled by the puritans of massachusetts as a haven for catholics, heathens, and other underdogs.
>>57417526
There's 51 though.
>>57417757
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoWc6WRHKEE
>>57417757
>>57417694
>haven for catholics, heathens, and other underdogs
And it's still just as irrelevant today
I wonder how that bike trip's going..
>>57417688
american logic at it's finest
>>57421026
>brazil
>women don't wear bras
>>57417688
When it originally started it was an island, then do to colonial conquest it expanded but they kept the name for historical and legal reasons
What is this? A state for ants?
>>57417302
First one to sign the constitution
Literally that's it, that's the only reason why it exists.
>>57417302
It's a state due to a rift in the beliefs of how Puritanism should be practiced around the 1600s.
The founder of Rhode Island was banished from Massachusetts, so he went into the forest and settled his own governance to the south.
>>57422018
It's still bigger than your micro states francois
