• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Same with DC. Practically everyone there wants statehood, the license plates have “no taxation without representation” as a protest even, but Congress kills it every time it comes up.

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      The reason they are not a state has to do entirely with racism. Hell, they were actively sterilizing Puerto Rican women up to the 70’s to try and stop them from having so many brown babies