When will Puerto Rico become the 51st state?

would rather it didn't

>>75598155
why not

>>75598197
because the last twenty or so were unneccessary as it is.

Puerto Rico has three things they can do.

1. Become state. Gain Congressional representation. Have to pay Federal taxes.
2. Become independent cunt. Resemble Haiti in five years.
3. Remain a territory. Receive gibesmedat while not having any Federal taxes at the small price of no rep in Congress.

Now you see why the status quo isn't likely to be disturbed any time soon.

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The US will become 1% whiter if they joined

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>>75598869

>>75598869
Dem bantz!

>>75598076
Hopefully never, half the states are already useless parasites that bring the rest of the country down, we don't need another one.

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Forget Puerto Rico, when will the Marianas become a state!

>>75598197

50 is a nice round number. 51 is not.

This is the one, single most important reason why Puerto Rico will never ever become a state. Because it totally fucks up the number system. Every real American knows that what I say is true.

All memes aside, Puerto Rico is interesting in that it is one of the most populated "territories" on Earth which is in some definite sense not an integral part of its controlling country's homeland. The other really big one is Hong Kong. The two are technically United States and Chinese territory respectively, But they operate independently in certain ways of their top-level governments. Hong Kong, of course, issues its own passports.

Territories tend to be backwaters and meme-places with really small populations, like Guernsey, Jersey, places like that. The two above are exceptions to this.

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>>75598969
?

>>75599041
We could just unite Dakota or something if they joined to keep it at 50.

It won't become a state because it will be 100% Democrat-controlled forever just like Hawaii.

>>75599092

(shutup shutup SHUTUP....!)

>>75599092

also this is what I'm really getting at:

>>75599117

>>75599117
I don't think that's a big problem since PR would only get a single Congressman.

>>75599035
Is there a population requirement to become a state? The Marianas only have some 50,000+ people.

>>75599117
There never really was any good reason to let Hawaii in besides strategic location, it should have been a territory.

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>>75599204

Don't believe so
We just like fucking over our colonies, pic related

>>75599249
what the hell does that even mean

>>75599195
What? Why would they get only one?

>>75599204
I don't think there is. Most states west of the Mississippi had microscopic populations when they were let into the union.

>>75599284
Same reason Hawaii only has one. Too small.

>>75599284
Quite a few states only have one. The House of Representatives is based on population, so how many members you get is based on how big you are. In the senate every state gets two representatives regardless of size.

>>75599281

Means they are second class citizens who can't vote or hold political office

>>75599344
What that anon says isn't true though, they have 3 million people, they'd have about four representatives.

>>75599204
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established the population size of a territory for state admission to be at least 60,000 people.

>>75599294
>>75599117
FWIW most of the Rocky Mountain states were admitted to the Union in the 1870s-1880s as a quick way of scoring additional Republican voter/Congressmen.

>>75599204
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
Wyoming has the smallest population at 563,626

>>75599358
They can vote in their own elections and if they want to hold an American office they can move to America and register there. Hate this second class citizen meme, they get free access to the US for nothing and are far better off than they would be independent.

Will NEVER become a state along with DC because the GOP will never want more Dem senators.

>>75599625
DC isn't going to be a state because the idea is fucking ludicrous. It would make a mockery out of the very idea of statehood.

>>75599708
>It would make a mockery out of the very idea of statehood.
What do you mean by this?

>>75599742
Not that guy, but it would be giving a city statehood.
>Maryland
>Virginia
Pick one.

>>75599708
Taxation without representation makes a mockery out of the American national mythos.

>>75599742
The rule of thumb is generally that if it couldn't function as an independent country, it shouldn't have statehood. That's not always followed but the minute we start creating literal city-states just so people can have congressional representation the idea goes out the window. The idea of cities being states is obviously normal in Mexico but it's unprecedented here.

Besides, it's not like most people there even care about it. The people who vote in congressional elections in DC don't live in DC, they live in the suburbs in Virginia and Maryland.

>>75599526
>Hate this second class citizen meme

>They are subject to federal law
>They have no representatives in congress aside from a non voting delegate

How is this not second class?

>>75599879
DC taxes and represents the US. This is a reason against statehood, not for it.

>>75599879
DC was created to be neutral ground where the states can come together, not a state itself. You sign up for not having the same representation as people living in states by living there. The actual city of DC is absolutely tiny, it's almost like complaining that the Vatican doesn't get have its voice heard in the EU parliament.

>>75600004
They don't get voting representatives in either the Senate or the House of Representatives, but they still pay federal taxes.

>>75600063
DC has more people living in it than Wyoming and Vermont. It's not an issue of land, it's an issue of people, citizens.

i hope puerto ricans never join americhimps. theres plenty of reasons for them not to, and to become independent and sovereign