Puerto Rico Statehood Poll

[CheeseWhiz]

Oh, and please say which Region you think it should become a part of.

Yes/Southeast

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No/Northeast

[Gabu]

Yes/Pacific, just to piss off the Southeast.

[King]

No/Canada

[Ebowed]

Yes/Southeast.

[Jake]

No/Midwest

[A18]

Yes, Pacific

[PBrunsel]

No

[Ben Meyers]

I'm not Puerto Rican, I shouldn't decide.

[Ebowed]

I'm not Puerto Rican, I shouldn't decide.

The majority of Peurto Ricans would likely be against statehood since they prefer to mooch off the government.

[DanielX]

Yes/Midwest

[TheWildCard]

Yes/Pacific

[Frodo]

yes/Southeast -it is, after all, geographically closer to this region than any other. 

[2952-0-0]

Yes/southeast. And Guam and Samoa and all those Pacific islands should be part of Hawaii.

[MaC]

no/mideast.
This is one of the things I disagree with my opponent on.  If we have Puerto Rico become a state, they'll want more money and more services.  And what's the point in having a State of mostly Spanish speakers?  It's fine as a territory, and the people there like territory status.  How would we make a fiftyone star flag anyways?

[Lt. Gov. Immy]

Yes, Pacific

[2952-0-0]

no/mideast.
This is one of the things I disagree with my opponent on.  If we have Puerto Rico become a state, they'll want more money and more services.  And what's the point in having a State of mostly Spanish speakers?  It's fine as a territory, and the people there like territory status.  How would we make a fiftyone star flag anyways?

Well 17 X 3 =51!! Besides; taxation without representation is tyranny!!

[2952-0-0]

Why is the majority of us against this?

[Gabu]

Well 17 X 3 =51!!

Given that we currently have stars in rows of 6-5-6-5-6-5-6-5-6, and the space is all filled up, fitting 17 stars in one row or fitting 17 rows into the space might be kind of tricky.

It seems to me that it wouldn't be that hard to think of combinations that would work, though... something like 6-5-6-6-5-6-6-5-6.

[Platypus]

In real life, yes; not on here because of the maps. I voted no.

[Gabu]

In real life, yes; not on here because of the maps. I voted no.

Actually, Dave has it set up so that you can have Puerto Rico on the map.  If you change the date in the URL for the image to 2008 and then add a bit at the end that says "&PR=x;y;z", Puerto Rico is displayed.

For people's interest's sake, here's a picture of what the flag I described above would look like:

[2952-0-0]

Well 17 X 3 =51!!

Given that we currently have stars in rows of 6-5-6-5-6-5-6-5-6, and the space is all filled up, fitting 17 stars in one row or fitting 17 rows into the space might be kind of tricky.

It seems to me that it wouldn't be that hard to think of combinations that would work, though... something like 6-5-6-6-5-6-6-5-6.

Why don't the stars be packed up in a circle like on the EU flag? Or how about we merge to states, like, say, West Virginia and Virginia?

[Gabu]

Well 17 X 3 =51!!

Given that we currently have stars in rows of 6-5-6-5-6-5-6-5-6, and the space is all filled up, fitting 17 stars in one row or fitting 17 rows into the space might be kind of tricky.

It seems to me that it wouldn't be that hard to think of combinations that would work, though... something like 6-5-6-6-5-6-6-5-6.

Why don't the stars be packed up in a circle like on the EU flag? Or how about we merge to states, like, say, West Virginia and Virginia?

I'm sure I know of one poster who would thoroughly approve of the second option.

[Hatman 🍁]

Gabu, that flag's proportions & colours are all wrong. lol

Wikipedia has an article on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._51_star_flag

[Gabu]

Gabu, that flag's proportions & colours are all wrong. lol

Oh, be quiet, it took me all of two minutes.