I am not in favor of statehood for either.
But if the people of Puerto Rico vote for statehood, we kind of owe it to them. Maybe it should be an “either or” deal. Either they become a state or they become a independent country.
As for DC, if they want ‘statehood’ hand the relevant areas back to Virginia and Maryland.
IN any case, each of those represent two more Democrat Senators.
“As for DC, if they want ‘statehood’ hand the relevant areas back to Virginia and Maryland.”
The people in DC should be voting as citizens of whichever state the territory was carved from. (I think the VA part never got returned to DC after the Civil War, anyway.)
“IN any case, each of those represent two more Democrat Senators.”
Not true. DC for sure but PR would be contestable and they actually have fundamentally conservative values. The reason that they are viewed as a dependency is because they have been treated that way. If Republicans actually made an effort PR could be a staunch Red state and reliably conservative.
the cesspool that is DC should never be a state...it was left as it is for very sound reasons.....you can’t have the people that work and get paid by the govt having TWO SENATORS.