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Matthew Yglesias
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I support statehood for DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, the nine provinces of Anglophone Canada, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Jamaica, and Cuba.
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Josh McClure
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To achieve island statehood, concessions must be made in the Jones Act though. Singularly puts them behind the 8 ball, preventing them from importing much from the U.S. or even other U.S. territories, an asinine situation.
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maxmilstein
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Why leave out Quebec? I looked it up this morning and Prince Edward Island does not meet the population threshold for statehood.
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Evan Bear
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The key to getting more buy-in from American voters is to make it a round number. There's something pleasing about having "50 states" - nobody wants 51 or 52. But you can sell 60 or 70.
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Desert Pretzel
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If US & Canada were to merge I’d prefer a constitutional convention where we hash out a new federal structure. I don’t like ours (I’d want to nix the Senate, EC & judicial supremacy) & generally prefer their Westminster style parliamentary system, but theirs has flaws too.
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Derek Whittom
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If the British can ditch their monarchy and aristocracy, they can also become a state, which will make Mississippi happy, since they wouldn’t be the poorest then.
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S. Lant
@Shiftant
You don't annex a territory without first settling it, unless the native population are already co-ethnics, or the region is of vital economic or security importance, and the cooperation of the natives must be bought off with citizenship.
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Connor Mullin
@ConnorMullin8
Also the Dominican Republic! Grant's failure to accept their request for annexation and statehood due to racism fears remains unforgivable.
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Ori Pomerantz
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I think we should only add three states. Why? Because with 53 states we'll really be "one nation, indivisible". A prime number of states will also make the flag ... interesting.
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Richard Probst
@rprobst
Yes! And also statehood for metro NYC, metro LA, Bay Area as city-states, subject to approval by their state legislatures. The Senate needs urban representatives to balance out all those islanders. Pack the Senate! Republicans did it in the 1880s.
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Emma
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Canadians should be more upset about their disenfranchisement they should demand the right to vote
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Daniel
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Funny re British Columbia. The BC Liberals who were in government from 2001 to 2017, changed their name to BC United, causing everyone to confuse them with a sports team. Their support fell to single digits and they ended up disbanding for thr BC Cons who won 0 seats last time.
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Mike
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I support 2 senators that represent all of the people in those first 4 territories combined, plus the appropriate number of representatives for their combined population. And the corresponding number of EC votes. Every US citizen should be represented in Congress/Presidency.
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Sauna Insider
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There are only two types of people I can’t stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the québécois
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Guyana? English-speaking, Anglo cultural/political/legal tradition, larger population of Guyanese living in the U.S. than in the country itself, oil
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Matthew Yglesias
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I support statehood for DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, the nine provinces of Anglophone Canada, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Jamaica, and Cuba. x.com/fabulavancouve…
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