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I hope this doesn't come across as prejudiced or selfish or even "old-fartish" because it isn't meant that way. But I'm going to say it anyway.
No. No. Absofrigginlutely no.
As much as it might burn some folks to hear it, the reason the US invites places to become states is because that action benefits the US as a whole. Having PR as a state offers no benefits to the US at all. None.
Quite the opposite in fact. It'll be a welfare money/government grant/program sinkhole. We'd end up shovelling money into it with no effect. Hell, we'd be bulldozing mounds of money into it.
With no benefit whatsoever to the nation.
The people there are wonderful. It's a lovely island. It'll be a friend to the US forever. And all three of those things will remain true whether it's a state or not.
I vote "not."
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