RSSPuerto Ricans have voted against full statehood three times
The Heritage Foundation | May 29, 2010
Puerto Ricans have voted against full statehood three times. But now Congress wants to force Puerto Ricans to vote again. One problem with the legislation, explains Heritage’s Brian Darling, is that it rigs a vote of the Puerto Rican people in favor of statehood because it allows people born there but living elsewhere in the U.S. to vote. This would tend to skew the results toward statehood. “Conservatives support the idea of statehood for Puerto Rico,” Darling argues, “but only if the people who actually live there want it, want it with a supermajority, and the American people consent to add a new state.”
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