User:Denelson83/Geographical collation of states in the United States

Whenever I work through a list of points in the United States, I sort them by state and territory, and I sort the states and territories in a fixed geographical order. The fundamental rule that dictates this order is you have to be able to travel on the surface of the Earth from one state or territory to the next without passing through any other state or territory. Here's the order:

1. U.S. Virgin Islands
2. Puerto Rico
3. Maine
4. New Hampshire
5. Vermont
6. Massachusetts
7. Rhode Island
8. Connecticut
9. New York
10. New Jersey
11. Delaware
12. Pennsylvania
13. West Virginia
14. Maryland
15. District of Columbia
16. Virginia
17. North Carolina
18. South Carolina
19. Georgia
20. Florida
21. Alabama
22. Mississippi
23. Tennessee
24. Kentucky
25. Ohio
26. Michigan
27. Indiana
28. Illinois
29. Wisconsin
30. Minnesota
31. Iowa
32. Missouri
33. Arkansas
34. Louisiana
35. Texas
36. Oklahoma
37. Kansas
38. Nebraska
39. South Dakota
40. North Dakota
41. Montana
42. Wyoming
43. Colorado
44. New Mexico
45. Arizona
46. Utah
47. Idaho
48. Nevada
49. California
50. Hawaii
51. American Samoa
52. Guam
53. Northern Mariana Islands
54. Oregon
55. Washington
56. Alaska