[Notorial dissent]

Originally Posted by netwrkranger

The Expatriation Act of 1868
remainder of quote redacted for pointlessness and a good example of why not to copy something from the web without bothering to actually check your facts, of which in this there were precious few.

The Expatriation Act of 1868 having absolutely nothing to do with anything mentioned in the above referenced article to being with.

What the Expat Act did was spell out in law and deal with were the many ways by which you can lose you citizenship, ie. give up, or have it taken from you, and that it recognized that it was the right of someone coming from another country to give up their citizenship in that country to become a US citizen.

It was specifically aimed at Great Britain who maintained for a considerable time that British citizens remained British citizens even having left the UK, and settled in and applying for and receiving citizenship in another country. The act forced US courts to accept this status, when they had at times before not done so. The nationality that actually brought this about were the Irish and former UK citizens, now US citizens.

Originally Posted by amenmesse

It can't be stolen very much if someone is a state citizen.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Smith, a citizen and resident of Oklahoma, died as a result of injuries alleged to have been negligently ......


He was and is a resident and citizen of Louisiana, of which state the respondent Fitzsimmons Drilling Company is also a citizen.......
.........Mexican Central Ry. Co. v. Eckman, 187 U. S. 429, is applicable. That was an action in a federal court in Texas by a guardian, a citizen of that state........

Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co., Inc., 284 U.S. 183 (1931)

This case clearly shows we still had state citizenship in 1931.

If by that you mean he resided in OK and had been there long enough to qualify as a citizen, then yes, you become a citizen of a state by moving there and being there long enough to meet the state residency requirements, just as you can do to any other state. Otherwise, it carries no significance.