[Python] State name spellcheck code not working with two word state names [closed]

I am working on vetting someone else's state spellchecker. The test data they ran seemed to work fine, but trying a different data set, it doesn't seem to be able to get past the first word "North" in a state name.

I need the code to be able to work with state names with two words.

This is the code:

import sys
!pip install pyspellchecker
from spellchecker import SpellChecker
#from google.colab import files
import pandas as pd
import io

#Implement spellcheck.
spell=SpellChecker()
for ind in newDF.index:
stateWordList = newDF['State'][ind].split()
if len(stateWordList) == 1:
#print(True)
if stateWordList[0] in spell:
pass
else:
correctState = input("'{}' is not a valid state, please enter a correct spelling:".format(stateWordList[0]))
newDF.at[ind, 'State'] = correctState
else:
misspelledState = False in (stateWord in spell for stateWord in stateWordList)
if misspelledState == True:
pass
else:
correctState = input("'{}' is not a valid state, please enter a correct spelling:".format(stateWordList[0]))
newDF.at[ind, 'State'] = correctState


Instead, it isn't seeing North WhateverState as valid, and returns:

'North' is not a valid state, please enter a correct spelling:


Does it need a condition specifically for two word names?

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