The Fascinating Story of Pennsylvania: The State That Never Stopped Being Old America

The Fascinating Story of Pennsylvania: The State That Never Stopped Being Old America On September 27, 1777, the government of the United States ran out of Philadelphia with the British army right behind it. The Continental Congress grabbed its papers, climbed into wagons, and rode west down a dirt road through Pennsylvania farm country. That night, for exactly one day, the capital of America was a small town called Lancaster. But in 2024, something happened on that road that hadn’t happened in living memory. The people who had stayed out of American politics for three hundred years started showing up to vote. To understand why, you have to understand how Pennsylvania became the one state that never really stopped being old America.