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28, 2013  Guests: Bill Burton, Paul Krugman  Schultz. And Rachel
Maddow of THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW starts right now.   SCHULTZ:
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for this hour.  The last state admitted to the Union, the 50th
state in the United States is, of course, Hawaii. Forty-ninth
state admitted the year before, Alaska. So those were 49 and 50.
Those are the last two states admitted to the Union in 1958 and
1959.  What was the last state admitted before then? Before
Alaska and Hawaii, the last state admitted in the contiguous
United States, the last state admitted on the big part of the
map? That was Arizona. Arizona was the 48th state. It was not
admitted to the union until 1912. It just has not been a state
for very long, which is maybe why it sometimes feels like
Arizona is still working out the kinks.  But it also means that
all of the oldest things about the state as a state just aren`t
very old at all. The fi