Give Cuba territorial rights only.
And Cuban citizens have developed a strong hatred for communism and everything on the left.
Give it to Hyman, require 10% tribute on all income.
“The two most obvious candidates are the District of Columbia and the Territory of Puerto Rico.”
Great, that way the Democrats aka Demoncrats will have eternal control of all future US elections.
I’m fine with keeping it at 50 states. Maybe even downsize a little, say, throw out California. Maybe more. Even Illinois, where I’m at…
Outside of democrats delusions how can DC even be considered a candidate for statehood ?
I think we should invade California and make it part of the United States.
Their people must be tired of socialist policies, high taxes, and freedom robbing restrictions. Apparently California leadership is also trying to make itself a part of Mexico, we should get started right away.
While we’re at it, there’s some other places here in North America that seem to be posturing to become part of the old Soviet Union and even some that seem to be creating the fictional Wakanda. I hope we can save these people too.
If the CIA could be counted upon, it would probably be easy to engineer regime change. Wasn’t it the CIA who screwed up the Bay of Pigs invasion? On purpose?
Not only no, but hell no.
Fuggedabouttit ... WDC is a Constitutionally established place that would take a Constitutional amendment to change and that isn’t about to happen in today’s political environment.
PR would be another ‘taker’ state contributing little to the benefit of the country while absorbing huge amounts of welfare.
Only if we can send their residents to Libya along with the Palestinians.
As for DC, everything except the central district should just be returned to Maryland.
We still need Greenland.
Canada was never really considered as the 51st state.
Albereta, now that’s different. But the count would not really change. Minnesota would be traded for Alberta
We don’t need a 51st state. We have too many that are socialist/communist already. So no, Puerto Rico can keep it’s current status, DC was never intended to be a state, and Canada can keep Alberta.
What about the State of Jefferson; the secession of several northern California counties from the rest of the state?
Cuba? HELL NO. They don’t speak English. They’re a backward 3rd world country at this point. That would be just adding 10 million more snouts to feed at the public trough and they’d likely be Democrat voters anyway. Forget it.
How about Haiti?, Yemen?, Ukraine? /s
50 States are enough!
Considering the political & legal gridlock in DC, there’s absolutely no way either party is going to allow the balance in the House & Senate to be disturbed by the entry of just 1 new state. They’ll have to enter in pairs, or not at all just like the period before the US Civil War. In fact, it also happened in 1959 when both Alaska and Hawaii were added.
I’m thinking Alberta will become a territory. Possibly Greenland. They may have to wait until the politics of the situation becomes clear before either or both get statehood.