The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico

Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by dragonwriter on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:03PM (#15389554)

That's what I said.

Although it runs into the problem that Virginia and Maryland don't want it.

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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by maxerickson on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:29PM (#15389676)

It could probably be turned into a simple matter of money.

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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by dragonwriter on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:11PM (#15389839)

Sure, but the rest of the country with voting representatives in Congress would rather disenfranchise D.C. residents than pay Virginia and Maryland to take on the extra population and the census count, representation, etc., that comes with them. But Virgina and Maryland's existing citizens don't want to dilute their own votes in their own states to take on a bunch of (disproportionately) poor, urban blacks.

The only people with a rational (short-term, at least) interest in D.C. representation is D.C. residents, and they don't get a vote, or even a vote for people who get a vote.

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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by maxerickson on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:23PM (#15389869)

Sure, but the rest of the country with voting representatives in Congress would rather disenfranchise D.C. residents than pay Virginia and Maryland to take on the extra population and the census count, representation, etc., that comes with them.

This strikes me as a very truthy claim. I'd expect the vast majority of people to be utterly indifferent to paying Virginia or Maryland to absorb parts of DC. They might say otherwise in a poll, but they'd act like it never happened when they next voted.

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