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What’s the historical reason it wasn’t included in one of the other states? Why not have it be part of Kansas or Texas instead?

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Slavery, like usual, was the answer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850

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It has a lot to do with the US using Oklahoma as a dumping zone for first Americans and then over time taking even that from them piece by piece.

If your interested, Jonny Harris did a piece on it recently.

The Native American State That Never Was

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