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You are absolutely correct, Puerto Rico should be permitted to be an Independent Nation because that is what they want now and have always wanted since their first revolt for freedom on Sept. 23, 1868. They spoke spanish then and they still speak it now. We should have set them on a course of North American democracy & liberty in 1898, not one of dependency. What were we thinking? Puerto Rico was nothing like Alaska, Hawaii or even the southwest; which were not “westernized”. Puerto Rico had already evolved into a distinct culture, identity and nationality with its own dialect of the spanish language by 1895. Infact Spain acknowledged this in 1897 by making Puerto Rico a sovereign entity with it's own money, postal system and the creation of a militia to defend it's independence which would take place the following year after national elections. However, the Spanish-American war came and Puerto Rico would become “dependent”, not independent. What a fine mess you got us into President McKinley! ps. I did not know "RINOS" went back that far?