They have no idea where they are, no idea what [US] state they are in.

We learn that we live in a state and a city.

I believe it is not only possible, but in fact easier to do this without deciding the legal question of whether these states have ever been out of the Union.

It says almost all of the states have some public schools that are open all year.

The people of that frontier state were once famous for not believing everything people told them.