"And the population of Puerto Rico is bigger than 6 of these states COMBINED." PR needs statehood.

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33. Tell them that. Again. It's not a frivolous moment of attention

in Puerto Rico but a very old, fractious and potentially disastrous issue.

The house just voted on one bill to make PR a state.

There's another bill in congress to set up a "convention where representatives elected by Puerto Ricans would study an array of options for the island—which, aside from statehood, include independence or some form of association that would leave Puerto Rico with more autonomy—and put vetted proposals to a binding vote. “The key is that this framework would be developed by Puerto Ricans and for Puerto Ricans, not dictated to them like so many previous policies,”..."

Factions in PR are all over the place, and some very passionate. Some really don't like the U.S. and resent the hell out of being dependent for PR's survival on a nation across a 1000 miles of water. My DIL lived there for years and wants to take our son to live there again someday, and I do want it prosperous and stable if that happens. But I believe more than a 1-vote majority should be required to impose statehood on the entire population. A substantial majority of Puerto Ricans should prove to the rest, and to us, that they want it. We have something like relative stability now and need to be careful we don't trade it for fighting a PR Liberation Front.