There are no good choices. If Puerto Rico became independent, it would soon be governed by someone like Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez, who would bring poverty through Socialism, blame the poverty on the US, and provide a haven for enemies of the US. If PR became a state, it would end up like Quebec, an unassimilatable thorn in the side of the rest of the US, with demands that the US officially become bilingual, all signs in both English & Spanish, etc.
Pick your poison.
If PR became a state, it would end up like Quebec, an unassimilatable thorn in the side of the rest of the US,...
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Yep. Sorta like Hawaii has been; they love the tourist dollars, but hate mainlanders.
No benefit to PR to become a State and have to pay taxes to the Feds. Only benefit would be to Dem Party.