re: #3 piratedan

oh, so they support statehood for DC, Puerto Rico and Guam?

re: #5 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

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DNC platform does and has for DC for sometime. PR is more complex but I think we’re headed there due to the referendum that passed. Dunno about Guam.

re: #18 aatharuv

Donald Trump had removed the taxation

I agree that PR is much more complicated, but in terms of all the laws that now have to be changed, and a transition period for the entirety of federal law to apply there..

That said, there are _constitutional_ complexities for DC, namely:
1) What to do about the DC’s EC votes, if a separate state is carved out of the populated parts of what is now the Federal District listed in the constitution.

Guam (or for that matter the US VI, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa) of course have much smaller populations than any present state, and of course none of the other territories even have a permanent human population.

I’d love to see more mainstream and legislative support for Puerto Rico, since there’s still a lot of anti-statehooders both on the island and among the diaspora employing concerningly Trump-like rhetoric to deny and dismiss the referendum results.

With reference to Guam, there recently has been some momentum for it and the Northern Mariana Islands to reunify, though there has been no clear consensus for what self-determination status it prefers yet. We may well see a ‘Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands’ either as a state or a country this coming decade.