Just make Peurto Rico a County of Florida after first allocating free parcels there with no-down low-interest manufactured home loans to low-income Americans on fixed incomes like social security. Interject the island with a conservative streak.
Just an idea.
Never let it become a state because of Article V considerations. Same goes for DC.
How about renaming Puerto Rico “Black Lives Matter,” give anyone of the right color a homestead, then after everyone who thinks the US is racist leaves, grant the island their independence?
Interesting proposal.The only problem with it is that Puerto Ricans would then all vote in Florida elections and, with all the Yankee leftists in South Florida, would transform this Greater Florida into Greater Puerto Rico with enclaves of wealthy New Yorkers in tightly zoned and walled communities, sort of like coastal California for the Rich Retired.
In 1978 SNL’s Emily Litella protested against making Puerto Rico a steak.
The PR’s I knew in the Army couldn’t say enough nice things about Cuba; the food, the culture, even Cuban-accented Spanish and Castro’s not that bad, etc. And they were proud to have never voted in a Presidential election.
The Cuban Liberation Army can come occupy P.R. for all I care.