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Detroit History: America's Unwanted Child

"America's unwanted child" ... that's how Michiganians portrayed their state on America's 60th birthday 175 years ago when hopes for statehood by Independence Day, 1836 were dashed by Congress.

There would be no star for Michigan on Old Glory until the squabble with Ohio about who would keep Toledo was settled, and the Buckeyes had the advantage.

Hear more in this edition of Joe Donovan's Detroit History:

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