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on december 7 1787 delaware ratified the newly written united states constitution becoming the first state to enter into the union over the next two years 12 more states did the very same thing totaling 13 original states by 1790. just a year later vermont was added as the first new addition to the country and the 14th member of the union a year after that it was kentucky then tennessee then ohio by 1803 this year however saw the purchase of the louisiana territory from france doubling the size of the country and jumpstarting a new age of american expansion starting in 1812 with the addition of louisiana over the next hundred years the country added a total of 31 states averaging one new state every three years until the country assumed its final contiguous form in 1912 with the admission of arizona as the 48th state and just like that there was no more space for the country to grow it wouldn't be for 47 years that another change came to the american map when in 1959 alaska was annexed as the 49th state and less than nine months later hawaii became the 50th and final state to be admitted to the union now it's been 62 years since any change to the american map has occurred by far the longest period in the country's history while this very well might change in the upcoming years as the case for both puerto rican and dc statehood gather momentum what's clear is that america is no longer the dynamic country it once was and virtually all progress in developing the country's borders has ended of course in a lot of ways this makes sense the united states era of expansion is over and now all the land on the continent is claimed by someone but now that we've been stuck with the same borders for over a century a new possibility has opened up instead of looking outside of our borders for ways to expand we can finally bring our attention back to the lines that actually define the inside of the country and use what we know now about how america and its states work together to improve its overall ability to function after all with a new state added every three years not a lot of thought was put into these borders and how they'd come to impact the states they defined instead of taking into account the landscape and natural barriers many states resorted to cutting up territories with straight and uncompromising borders often to their own detriment and left plenty of room for improvement it might be time for the u.s to reassess its own internal divides and begin a new era not of expansion but rather optimization now i know what a lot of you are thinking already what's wrong with the borders we already have and okay i'll be honest a very strong argument could be made to keep everything how it is...