LoveNotHate wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
As Puerto Ricans would most likely vote Democrat, many of a conservative political bent have voiced their resistance against granting them statehood. That, and because so many people of Puerto Rico are darker skinned and speak Spanish, there are still some Americans who refuse to see them as fellow Americans.
It's the Democrats that don't want Puerto Rican statehood.
"Popular Democratic Party is a political party that
advocates for maintaining the current colonial political status of Puerto Rico as that of an unincorporated territory of the United States with self-government".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_D ... uerto_Rico)
Republicans like it because they support free trade.
From what I've found when I looked on that link was, the Popular Democratic Party is a local political party in Puerto Rico, not the national party.
And who says I was talking about the Republicans as a Party opposing their statehood?
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer