On Tuesday, the majority of the voting citizens of Puerto Rico who indicated they wanted a change in status said they would like the island to become the 51st state of the United States. That's a long way from statehood, but it is a step. The immediate question arose as to what a flag with 51 stars would look like. Redditors were eager to suggest designs, the best of which you can find at The Daily Dot. My favorite is the Pac-Man flag, which sadly, was later determined to have only 50 stars. Link
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http://51starflag.com/blog/puerto-rico-statehood-initiative-congress
And as Gil points out, statistically a minority of people voted for statehood. Would Obama even think that's the will of the people? He says he supports a “a clear decision”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/us/politics/15obama.html
I don't think this a clear decision, for better or worse, right now.
We may fail. We may even fail miserably. But success is guaranteed to no entity that takes on a supreme challenge. The only guarantee is that if we never try, if we never get the chance, we will never really know what we can do.
Sadly, I am in a tiny minority amongst my own people. That will almost certainly be the biggest obstacle to becoming our own nation. I hope I'm wrong.
Thank you again.
That isn't a majority and in fact, is a decrease from an earlier plebiscite, which like all of these electoral farces, was non-binding. Like it has before, Congress doesn't have to do anything with this and given the sub-50% "support", most likely won't even discuss the matter beyond the bare minimum to table it.
One would think that in the midst of the avalanche of political lies We just endured, this lie would be much easier to pick off. Then again, it did lead to some cheeky redesigns of the U.S. flag, so it ain't all bad.