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  1. Scribus Scribus

    Also why the Christ aren't they moving the other way ATM?!

    Monday, 12-Jun-17 04:25:14 UTC from web
    1. Matt Matt

      @scribus Funding. Puerto Rico's economic state isn't the best right now and if they were a state the federal government would sort of be obligated to fix it. In addition, Puerto Rico, like other non-state territories, doesn't have any representatives or Senators in Congress, and, unlike Washington, D.C., doesn't have any electoral power during Presidential elections.

      Monday, 12-Jun-17 05:43:12 UTC from web
      1. Matt Matt

        @scribus With that being said: Politics in Puerto Rico are very weird. They don't abide by the same two-party system we do, they have three major political parties and none of them are really equivalent to any of ours, so if they had electoral power it would be very hard to predict whether they would be a blue or red state. As Puerto Rico's population is actually larger than about half of the mainland states, and therefore they would have more representation then some states, politicians across party lines are sort of iffy about the whole thing.

        Monday, 12-Jun-17 05:54:18 UTC from web