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If so many people didn't want statehood, they probably should have voted in the referendum...

• tptacek 9y ago
  It's a non-binding referendum, and Puerto Ricans have been debating the wording of these polls for over a decade. Neither side can pretend that there's a clear public will in either direction --- especially since public support for statehood sometimes carries some unrealistic predicates (continued support for a Spanish official language and the continuation of the PR legal system, which is something like half-ours and half-theirs). I'm a Democrat and would like to see PR a state, but it's not honest to pretend that this is a cut-and-dried decision. There are benefits to the limbo PR is in right now: US citizenship without income tax and much more control over the operation of their territory than they'd have as a state.