"Wyoming," Applegate says reflectively. "That's one of the new states, isn't it?"

Applegate, whose current interest in American politics is primarily concerned with Woodrow Wilson's (presumably no relation) irritating idealism in regards to getting into the war, and whose last interest in same was during the Civil War, is a bit fuzzy on this whole issue of statehood. It's too specific a point in Ava's litany to leave unaddressed, though.