Yes, Virginia … and our other 49 states, there is, and will continue to be, a United States of America. In history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, written to the editor of the New York Sun in 1897,

Is it all real?’ the Sun asked 127 years ago. ‘Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.’

Francis P. Church’s editorial, 'Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus' first appeared in The New York Sun in 1897, and is reprinted annually.

It is, perhaps, the most famous editorial ever written. One that has been reprinted year in,, year out in newspapers around the world. It first appeared in the Sept. 27, 1897, edition of the New York Sun as a response to a letter from a little girl just 8 years old.