If the U.S. flag had 51 stars. Thanks to Traveler’s Today

One of the extra points to come out of the U.S. Presidential election is the non-binding referendum from Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory) calling for statehood. Don’t believe all the hype

There doesn’t appear to be an active majority in Puerto Rico for any of those options and holding multi-part, multi-choice referendums confuses the issue further.

Like in the U.S., Republicans faltered in the gubernatorial election. Alejandro Garcia Padilla of the Popular Demorcratic party came out on top

Spiraling drug-related crime that left 1,100 dead in 2011, an unemployment rate of nearly 15 percent and a long-struggling economy tipped the balance in favor of Garcia Padilla.

With an economy worse than ours and a post-colonization struggle that’s lasted more than one hundred years, it’s going to take more than one iffy referendum to get it together.

Most Puerto Ricans live in the U.S. anyway, due to the lower unemployment rate. For more on this commonwealth/territory relationship, read here.