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QueerDuck

(1,940 posts) Fri Oct 24, 2025, 07:17 AM Oct 2025

Should U.S. Territories Be States? -- Civics Made Easy (PBS)

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Should U.S. Territories Be States? -- Civics Made Easy (PBS) (Original Post) QueerDuck Oct 2025 OP

Puerto Rico should be a state. Taxation without representation. Emile Oct 2025 #1

Puerto Rico should be a state purely becaue it's the right thing to do. marble falls Oct 2025 #2

so should guam, us vergin island and dc. AllaN01Bear Oct 2025 #3

I think a better question is do the territories want to be states? nycbos Oct 2025 #4

Emile

(43,249 posts)

1. Puerto Rico should be a state. Taxation without representation.

Reply to QueerDuck (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2025, 07:34 AM

Oct 2025

marble falls

(72,531 posts)

2. Puerto Rico should be a state purely becaue it's the right thing to do.

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Fri Oct 24, 2025, 08:46 AM

Oct 2025

AllaN01Bear

(29,799 posts)

3. so should guam, us vergin island and dc.

Reply to QueerDuck (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2025, 11:10 AM

Oct 2025

nycbos

(6,729 posts)

4. I think a better question is do the territories want to be states?

Reply to QueerDuck (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2025, 11:29 AM

Oct 2025

That’s an open question.

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Should U.S. Territories Be States? -- Civics Made Easy (PBS)

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