I did check before I posted that other states were published and again after your question to make sure. They were published. But in the meantime I have restored the site several times through Akeeba Backup as I made a lot of backups through out the upgrade process. I found one backup that was towards the end of the upgrade process and the states were showing up during checkout with that version of the backup. So now I have a much narrower list of possible problems to figure out once i finish the upgrade project.
So for now my issue is resolved until I break it again during further upgrades. I will post later what I find as the culprit so others can benefit from what I find.
Thanks for the reply