In the recent polls in Puerto Rico, 61% of those who voted supported becoming a US state to enable Puerto Rico to accept funding from governmental programs, such as Social Security, and for the residents to feel equal to the existing states. A message had been delivered to Congress with the results.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fea...129195368.html

I don't have much of an opinion other than that I think it's a good idea, but I'm curious to know what you folks think.

Awww, accepting little Puerto Rico sounds like such a nice thing, but... just to be negative, that would be sooooo ugly to have 51 states. That number is so odd and imperfect, and then we'd need an extra star on our flag and... egh. But seriously, I don't see why not, considering the benefits they'd get.

What will the flag look like then?

Have they even considered the cost of replacing every flag in the country!?

In all seriousness Puerto Rico is really disgusting place, so if they do become a state they're going to have to put a lot of new regulations into place.

That's the idea. They want to get more governmental support to force regulation of their state-to-be.

"One nation, indivisible"?

Oh jeez, it's like, so weird. I could have SWORN there were a couple of words between "nation" and "indivisible". Just goes to show how indivisible it is when part of the pledge of allegiance has to be cut out.

The flag looks better with 51 stars in my opinion, don't really know anything about Puerto Rico though so I can't have much of an opinion on that.