Why don't maps of the United States show maps of Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa as insets like they do for Alaska and Hawaii. These areas are technically a part of the US. Have been since 1898, 121 years. We took forcibly, and without the native inhabitants choice.
They are possessions and not states.
I suspect it is because they are territories and not states. What it means beyond that I do not know.
Thats why US citizens do not take them seriously unfortunately. Most do not realize they are part of our nation.