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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 210424, member: 4626&quot;]Puerto Rico has voted on it on a number of ocassions.&nbsp; IIRC the closest it ever got was about 40% amongst those voting in Puerto Rico that wanted Puerto Rico to become a state.&nbsp; For what reason those who oppose it do, I can&#039;t say, but likely explanations are the desire to keep a sort-of-national idendity and they perceive there being more benefits to being a mostly autonomous territory to being a state.&nbsp; (I think there were some who were worried that public education might force English on mostly Spanish speaking people or something like that, but there is in fact no legal requirement the public education be in any specific language.&nbsp; The US does not have an official language, despite English being the de facto lingua franca.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting fact:&nbsp; There are 4 times as many Puerto Ricans living in New York City (about 2 million) as there are living in Puerto Rico (about 500,000).</p><p><br /></p><p>American Samoa (aka Eastern Samoa; Western Samoa, formerly British Samoa, is an independent country) has never even put statehood up to a vote; there isn&#039;t any significant movement pressing for statehood there, largely due to the perception there are more benefits in being a territory than a state.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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