When do we make islands like Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa official states?
How come Hawaii is the only one?
Who cares
Guam is just a big submarine cable landing station for connectivity in south East Asia and Oceania as well as an air force base
When was the last time you went there, clap?
Republicans would probably try to vote against accepting Puerto Rico as a state because they'd be a blue state and the Republican party is having a hard enough time as it is adapting to the changing demographics.
Puerto Rico is spanish you fucking gringos.
It should just become part of Florida
I always wondered about Puerto-Rico. It's literally a vassal state. How it is allowed in 2016? Especially in the US which pretends to be etalon of democracy and human rights.
>>57412784
I choose never.
>>57413041
>etalon
Never once seen that word used.
(That's a bad thing)
>>57412998
All Hispanics belong to Spain, now go my pretties.
>>57413041
we should grant them independence and free all the PR's here from internalized American supremacy by repatriating them, yes.
>>57413041
I didn't know how to translate this word, so I just used the French word which is used in Russian too. But seems it is used in English as well:
>In metrology (the science of measurement), a standard (or etalon) is an object, system, or experiment that bears a defined relationship to a unit of measurement of a physical quantity.
>>57413041
>How it is allowed in 2016?
What, is Russia going to free them?
>>57413283
Russia should liberate USA desu.
>>57413330
>wanting AIDs and krokodil
>>57413041
Nobody cares about those islands including Americans.
>>57413366
What am I preserving?
An asshole for Mexico to invade?
An asshole for niggers to invade?
>>57413366
At least with forerign occupants that aren't sneaky infiltrator hebrews I can have an excuse.
>>57413430
I'm preserving the state?
>>57412784
why do people stay on these islands while they can legally move to actual america?
>>57413041
Its not a one sided deal, they dont have to pay federal taxes and business have some perks for running out of them vs a regular state.
A thing for people to keep in mind is that every US state runs the vast majority of its self, a us state is far more idnependant than any other countries sub-divisions.
So the situation with US territories is really one of whether or not they want to get in on federal level governance, in exchange for having to pay more for it. And keep in mind, its much harder for a state to back out than it is for a territory, a territory could potentially become independent more easily, whereas if a state tries that, it means war.
>>57413547
whereas if a state tries that, it means war, why?
