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According to Fox News:
Puerto Rico's governor announced that the U.S. territory has overwhelmingly chosen statehood in a nonbinding referendum Sunday held amid a deep economic crisis that has sparked an exodus of islanders to the U.S. mainland.
Nearly half a million votes were cast for statehood, more than 7,600 for free association/independence and nearly 6,700 for independence, according to preliminary results. The participation rate was just 23 percent with roughly 2.26 million registered voters, leading opponents to question the validity of a vote that several parties had boycotted.
Also covered by AP.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 13 2017, @06:32AM
The most obvious problem is Spanish. We are already having a bit of a disaster; we shouldn't make it worse. A country has problems with unity if there is more than one language. The economy suffers too; you can never reach your full potential with all the overhead of translation and the friction in trade.
Another big problem is that they don't really endorse a competitive market with minimal government. I don't quite want to call them communist... but they are too close for comfort.
Another big problem is that the better workers have already left the island. The people who remain are lazy, elderly, uneducated, dumb, and disabled. At least "lazy" counts as culture, and the rest is mighty bad too.