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Mom’s description of the trip she and Dad took to Mérida in 1971 states:
Quintana Roo, adjacent to the B.H. border, is a territory of Mexico, not a state…
Quintana Roo, along with Baja California Sur, were granted statehood in October of 1974, making them the two most recent of the United Mexican States.