http://www.answers.com/topic/incorporated-territory

also i believe if you go back & read carefully you will see there was never any dispute

neither about what you say there was a dispute about
nor even about anything at all

but only 2 different elucidations of what the term external territories might mean

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "adamnvillani" <avillani@u...> wrote:
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > The territory of the United States consists of:
> >
> > 1. the 50 states of the Union
> > 2. the District of Columbia
> > 3. one Incorporated Territory: Palmyra
>
> So how did Palmyra become an Incorporated Territory, when none of the
> other various Pacific islands did?
>
> Also I think some of the dispute on this group as to how many US
> exclaves there are might be clarified by noting that there are two
> separate questions here, namely, how many territorial exclaves are
> there (which has the 52-exclave answer) and how many different
> first-level political units are there under U.S. sovereignty (Lowell's
> answer).
>
> Adam