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Why?

It’s called “Keeping Control of Congress.”

It’s called “2 more liberal Democrat Senators”.

It’s called “More liberal Democrat House Seats.”

If Puerto Rico had a conservative history, the Congress would be looking for a way to keep it from voting.

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Again, carve out New York City/Longisland as a state giving us two new Republican Senators, AND carve out Chicago, giving us another couple of new Republican Senators, and maybe carve out San Fran/Sacramento/Hollyweird/Beverly Hills as a new state, and that gives us another two Republican Senators.

That's 6 new Republican Senators, and most of the worst lot of Democrats find themselves cooped up in states that cannot finance themselves.

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Why?

It’s called “Keeping Control of Congress.”

It’s called “2 more liberal Democrat Senators”.

It’s called “More liberal Democrat House Seats.”

If Puerto Rico had a conservative history, the Congress would be looking for a way to keep it from voting.

Suppose there was a solution whereby the politics is removed from the issue of statehood for Puerto Rico. Would people be more accepting of Puerto Rico's statehood and would Puerto Ricans be welcome with open arms and without the bigots who always show up to deride Puerto Ricans as dependents and a drain on the U.S. and un-American in many ways?

Puerto Rico has gone back and forth in their politics and they've had different parties in control at different times, even if most times they've had liberals leading the island.

But currently, they have a "republican" governor, even if by some standards he's kind of a RINO. (Heck, there are plenty of RINOs in the mainland party anyway).

So, how to we take party politics out of the equation?

Puerto Rico would get 2 senators and perhaps 6 representatives.

To appease both major political parties, why not split the sharing of the new political power of PR by making sure that, at least initially, the parties get equal representation in Puerto Rico.

So, we'd end up with one republican senator and one democrat senator, and 3 representatives for each party. And that political makeup could remain the same for at least 6 years, and from then on, after the dust has settled, elections could be held for regular competitive elections.

Some people might be upset at that kind of resolution, but it would be only fair, and party politics wouldn't be involved in the initial voting for statehood. .