51 Star Flag (2011)

Re:51 Star Flag (2011) by eli on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:30AM (#25778310)

I get what you're saying but this conflates two issues: people who live in PR and DC have zero voting representation in Congress. Let's fix that and then separately address the problems of the whole system.

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Re:51 Star Flag (2011) by spoonjim on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:15PM (#25779902)

I don’t think they should do PR because it won’t be a reliably Democratic vote. Do you think the Republicans would admit a state that wouldn’t be reliably Republican? Democrats need to play a harder-nosed politics.

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Re:51 Star Flag (2011) by deanCommie on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:51PM (#25784026)

I wonder if the Republicans could consider policies that would be completely unpalatable to anyone non-Rural/non-White....

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Re:51 Star Flag (2011) by robk on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:51PM (#25779557)

DC should just be absorbed into Maryland

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Re:51 Star Flag (2011) by lalaithion on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:35PM (#25781222)

And while we're add it, let's merge the Dakotas with Wyoming!

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Re:51 Star Flag (2011) by eli on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:41PM (#25781320)

Merge the Dakotas, make Florida it's own country and admit DC and PR -- you don't have to change the flag!

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Re:51 Star Flag (2011) by eli on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:41PM (#25781336)

Neither Maryland nor DC wants that and there is no mechanism to force them. Do the residents of DC not deserve their own state?

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