Alex, you can't blame the Easterners for getting confused about Western geography. The states are all squares, for gosh sakes! It's like one of those little puzzles where you push the squares around and try to get the numbers in order. They're all interchangeable! Why don't you have nice sensible irregular borders, so the states all stay put?

Aloha,
Mark
(who grew up in Pennsylvania and lived in some of those West Coast states and now lives in Hawaii where the US Government really did annex an independent ally at the bidding of a few rich merchants--in fact, why don't we make "Aloha Oe" the national anthem? Or maybe "I Wanna Go Back to My Little Grass Shack in Kealekekua Hawaii (Where the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a Goes Swimming By)"?)