Better Late Than Never?

This, I thought, was interesting. While dutifully reading my pocket Constitution of the United States I learned that the following states voted against the Nineteenth Amendment prior to its ratification: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Mississippi. However, as if to demonstrate that no ill-considered political decision must ever be thought permanent, each state subsequently ratified the amendment. Delaware, at least had the good sense to jump on the bandwagon a mere three years after ratification. North Carolina finally mustered its moral courage on May 6, 1971. But Mississippi deserves special recognition for correcting their error after a scant 64 years on March 22, 1984.

Makes you wonder how long it will take some states to correct their next Constitutional blunder.