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nuparadigm wrote:I never lived there; was simply born there.

Me neither, we lived in Arlington, but moved to Fort Benning almost immediately, and then Fort Sam Houston, which is where my earliest memories are from and makes me feel like a native Texan even if it's not strictly true.

srothstein wrote:Jimlongley,

Well, I guessed wrong, but there is another place in the continental US where you were not born in a city, state, county.

I just assumed we would have turned down anyone from Louisiana for a CHL, just because.

"Parish" the thought. I guess other commonwealths would be out of the state category too, but I thought LA had cities.

seamusTX wrote:

jimlongley wrote:My grandmother, OTOH, was also not born in any state, but was born within the continental US, and not in D.C.

Your grandmother could have been born in Arizona, New Mexico, or Oklahoma before they were states (all in the 20th century).

Or she could have been really old and born in Texas when it was a republic.

- Jim

NM, and her brothers and sisters were born in similar territorial locations.

Can't fool anybody on this forum, I have stumped people for years with those, highly educated gunners found here.

seamusTX wrote:

jimlongley wrote:I still can't answer it, the only state I was born in was naked.

OK. What's the secret? You can be born in the United States but not in a state if you are born in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, or a bunch of other territories. You could also have been born in Alaska or Hawaii before 1959. Or maybe you were born on a ship?

- Jim

Well, one of your answers hit it, so I'll narrow it down, I was born within the confines of the continental US.

My grandmother, OTOH, was also not born in any state, but was born within the continental US, and not in D.C.

Both of my parents were born in D.C. also, so it's been a long time family joke - when asked what state we were born in - "NAKED!"

txinvestigator wrote:What they actually want is the city and state of your birth, OR the Country if not in the US.

I still can't answer it, the only state I was born in was naked.

Having been born where I was (within the continental US) I cannot answer "City, State, County"