Trollzyn the Infinite wrote:Talvezout wrote:US political hot take: Every territory that is sending a representative to Congress should become a state.
This means that Guam, DC, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands should all become states. If these places are all sending representatives to the US, why should we deny them full statehood and make them effectively second class citizens?
That's only a hot take to people with an (R) next to their name. The rest of us support the idea.
Obviously Puerto Rico should become a state, but I think some of the other territories you mention are too small in terms of population. DC maybe has enough population to be a state, but it could just as easily be annexed into Maryland. Maybe the US Virgin Islands could be added to Puerto Rico, since they are close by?