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Who do you think is going to become the 51st state of the U.S.A. So far the only two areas that are seriously rallying for statehood (that I know of) is Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.
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DC isn't seriously rallying, although many citizens do support the idea. Check out the "Taxation W/Out Representation" thread in the Flameboard too.
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I was the Gov. of Intoxication once.... Impeached for sobriety...
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*Considers making a comment about P.R.'s statehood quandary as relates to cultural stereotypes, but declines, as this doesn't need taken to the Flameboard*
Er, I've heard, over many years, several proposed candidates for 'new' states, at various levels of sincerity, including:
Dividing California into North and South California Dividing Kansas into East and West Kansas Doing the same with Florida The self-partitioning of Texas into various states. The State of New York City (which I think had a cutesy alternate name, but I can't recall it.) D.C. Puerto Rico (sorry about Rhode Island. I musta been having a fit) Guam New Brunswick (is rumored to have asked the US State Dept. for info on how it might become a state, back around '94 or so.) Manitoba (is also said to have done so)
Are any of these likely? Probably not, unles Quebec eventually secedes from Canada, in which case there is some small possibility that the US might pick up the then-isolated Maritimes.
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Well, first off, Rhode Island *is* a state and my roommate wants your head for implying that is not.
And NYC and Long Island were thinking about it not too long ago... the rest of New York State would be glad to be rid of them, cuz they're a huge tax vacuum.
the "Big Apple State" would also die off like the vestigial limb that is, if were to do so anyways.
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*Plese note: The following is entirely in jest.*
Don't need to. If we decide we want it, we'll take it. Thanks to your gun policies, you'ns don't have hardly any personal weapons to defend the land with, and from what little, admittedly, I've heard about Canadian internal affairs, the bigwigs in Ottawa don't seem to much give a hoot about the Maritimers' problems, anyway. At least economically. And the Quebecois would no doubt give you hell aboot transporting troops across their country from the West.
No, seriously, the US should have no designs at all on any part of Canada. They're just fine the way they are: a noble country, a respectable culture, a decent people... and a great big buffer zone between us and former soviet ICBMs. And a huge economic boost to our country's northern border areas, when they come flooding over the border to avoid the GST.
I'm such a bad person.
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"Rhode Island" slip corrected. My apologies to Jeff's roommate. I don't remember writing that. I must have been distracted by the damn dog going poopy again.
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Puerto Rico can't become a state because it doesn't have the population required in order to become a state (there is a minimum requirement, a precident set all the way back when Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio were formed out of the Northwest Territory). And since Puerto Rico can't exactly gain anymore land (you can drive around the entire perimeter in a day), I doubt if they can cram in enough people to make it able to become a state.
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Oh, I know what will become the 51st state. Here, let me explain it to you:
You see, when I finally unleash My Evil Plan to Take Over the World (v. 6.0b), I will make the south pacific island of Pitcairn the 51st state.
Why, you ask?
I don't know exactly why, but don't tell anybody that because it would make me look rediculous.
Anyway, Pitcairn, 51st state of the union. Did I say union? I'll have to change that to Imperial Combine. So you see, by eliminating the requirements to become a state and making a completely useless island in the middle of nowhere a state I suppose will completely confuse the public, giving me time to dissolve the House of Representatives and Senate, which will call an emergency meeting, by introducing a small covert team of black-ops martial arts trained teletubbies, which I have dubbed Ninjatubbies, into the capitol building.
Where all of the relevence in this is in My Evil Plan to Take Over the World (v.60b), I don't know; I just made it up. Then again, ICQ has many irrelevant things about it that seem as though they were just made up on a whim of the programmer, yet we accept it.
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And, as a bonus, we can piss off the Communist Chinese, which would be good for a few laughs...
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I already talked to them, they said if I ever show up in their jurisidction again, or even eat chinese food, they would cut me into so many pieces that I wouldn't even make good worm meal.
Suffice to say I'll never go to a foreign coutry and do THAT again! Well, maybe in South Africa, I hear it's legal there.
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