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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Sneaky ain't they?

Puerto Rico – 51st State? Congress Scrambling to Make it So

If this happens two things would happen:

1) There would be two new Senate seats (I'm sure they would go to Dems) and there would be several more house seats.
2) Since Puerto Rico's "official language" is Spanish, that would instantly make America an officially bi-lingual nation (actually it might make the ONLY "official" language of the United States Spanish since English is NOT currently our "official language" as we have no official language).

The Puerto Ricans have voted against citizenship every time its been brought up, however this time around the bill would force Puerto Rico to decide either to become a full US State OR they're on their own as an independent nation (they can't afford their own welfare system so they might actually vote for statehood this time around).
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  1. ZundfolgeApril 28, 2010 at 3:36 PM

    Each state gets a congressman for every 600,000 people

    Puerto Rico has 3,954,037 people so that would be 6 or 7 seats in Congress (6.59006167 ... not sure if they round up, round down or round to nearest whole number).

    So compare that to your state here:
    http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/map03.gif

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