Re:What Will Happen in the 2020s
by Fauntleroy on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @04:41PM
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In theory the US could add Guam and Puerto Rico... but how would that ever be politically viable? There's no way this is going to happen if one party in a two party system knows it will lead to their doom.
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Add two at once. Possibilities include creating West California, West Washington, South Virginia, and South Illinois.
Re:What Will Happen in the 2020s
by bobthepanda on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @07:22PM
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That works for balancing the Senate, but not really the House.
Adding PR to the House would significantly reduce the odds of a Republican House given that the current GOP makes a lot of noises that often seem like they're racist against Hispanics.
I don't know what "adding Guam and Puerto Rico" means when they are already US territories. Your comment seems to imply that this means statehood, i.e. addition of senators and voting representatives. But the parent throws them in with Greenland, which is not a US territory.
Pretty sure only trump has ever seriously posited adding Greenland to the US. I’d love for a source of that idea though.
IIRC the US tried to purchase Greenland after WWII, but Denmark declined back then as well.
Isn't the point of the electoral college that they can and are reassigned Isn't the point of the electoral college that they can and are reassigned values for each territory periodically? periodically?