From: jock@soccer.com   
      
   On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:28:25 +0000 (UTC), John Levine    
   wrote:   
      
   >>I'd already given the American Somoa versus Somoa example, a day apart.   
   >>It's interesting, but one would suspect that American Somoa may have   
   >>similar ties to Australia and New Zealand and perhaps the International   
   >>Date Line should be further east. I don't really know.   
   >   
   >American Samoa is part of the US.  People from AS are US nationals   
   >rather than citizens, but it's a pretty minor difference.  They get US   
   >passports and can live and work in the US.  Its largest employer other   
   >than the government is the Starkist tuna cannery.   
      
   But of the American territories, residents of American Samoa are the   
   only ones not citizens -- a distinction not visited upon Puerto   
   Ricans, Guamians (?!), or US Virgin Islanders...   
      
   I would propose that as US Nationals, not being allowed to vote or   
   hold public office within the 50 states/DC is a tad more than just a   
   "pretty minor difference"?   
      
   American Samoans elect a delegate to your Congress, but that person   
   cannot vote in the business of the House of Representatives AIUI.   
      
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