Trump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada | CNN Politics
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President-elect Donald Trump appears to be entertaining an American territorial expansion that, if he’s serious, would rival the Louisiana Purchase or the deal that netted Alaska from Russia.
  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    31·
    9 months ago

    puerto rico is not a state because every time the opportunity arose they voted not to be one. guam and american samoa im not really sure whats going on.

      • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
        36·
        9 months ago

        oh common. do you think thats a legitamate example. it was carved out of maryland and virginia for the specific purpose of being the capital with no state having authority over it.

          • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
            4·
            9 months ago

            yeah and the area is run by the federal government so not having federal representation is basically like not having state representation to boot.

          • futatorius@lemm.ee
            11·
            9 months ago

            it was also not meant to have a civilian population at all

            Meaning that its population was almost entirely African-American and therefore to be ignored.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
          61·
          9 months ago

          And the people who live there don’t have representation in Congress, but that’s not the point.

          The point is that it’s not a state. Just “being a possession of the United States” doesn’t confer statehood.

          • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
            11·
            9 months ago

            yes but again its not typical it was a very specific thing. The land had belonged to two different states. the guam, puerto rico, us virgin islands are similar but dc is in on way similar.

            • Nougat@fedia.io
              4·
              9 months ago

              Alaska was purchased by the US in 1867. It didn’t get statehood until 1959.

              Being a possession of the United States of America does not automatically make it a state.

              • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
                1·
                9 months ago

                true but its basically a bureaucracy thing at that point. as long as the it has a populace and they seek statehood its going to happen.