Will America Ever Have A 51st State?
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Everybody wants a 51st state, but what are the realistic situations that will allow that to happen? In this video, a few contenders are analyzed and how such a future may be a bit away.
Written, Edited and Narrated by Tyler Franklin
Music:
Underwater Stories 5 by Niklas Gutavson
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Dramatic Orchestra With Solo Strings by Gavin Luke
Yes, this was written, narrated and edited by my brother, Tyler. Sorry for the aspect ratio on this. Some issues happened with the editor. Bad communication. All on me. Anyway, hope you still enjoy it! VidCon took a dent out of the schedule, but its back to weekly videos.
KnowledgeHub hey boo
KnowledgeHub When Will Cody Ever Come Back !?
RUDE!
"Illin-noise" really dude? You're representing a channel called "Knowledge Hub" doing a video about statehood and you mispronounce a state's name? Embarrassing.
KnowledgeHub 5th reply..
we need DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico to become state, so we will have 53 States and because 53 is prime, we will be truly indivisible.
Underrated comment right here
no
I see what you did there you lil shit.
Bless your heart that was good
not D.C. there is a reason for why it is not a state.
52 is not Prime, and adding 3 will only give 52 after TEXAS SECEDES
Fun fact Greenland almost became a state because U.S.A tried to buy it from Denmark to make base for the Cold War
America: "I don't need it, i don't need it."
America: "I NEEED ITTT!"
Could you imagine 😂
We were gonna buy it until congress blocked it.
The US wanted to buy it for the modern equivalent of $728,000,000,000 (728 billion). Denmark refused due to it recently losing Iceland after it was occupied by Germany and Iceland declared independence. Denmark simply wanted to keep as much of it's empire after being overtaken and losing territory. In modern day, after organizations like NATO, there isn't much need for the US to even own greenland for the wanted bases, because of close alliance with countries like Denmark, and the obvious reasoning that the cold war ended decades ago
Denmark still allowed the US to run military operations there tho
What about Guam? It's a US territory, economically stable, and the majority of the population supports it becoming a state (at least those who know of its existence). It deserves statehood and is a likely candidate
I think population might be a reason? not even 200k people in that island
Almighty Raven The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 makes it so that it’s population qualifies
I wouldn't mind it. Size might be an issue, but hey... If China can create their own islands, why can't we?
What about Puerto Rico, it's an American territory, and I think it has the highest likelihood of becoming a state.
Jaxon Settle it’s poor
How about just re-name a state to "The 51st State" and bam you got it
Alexia Rai “Harvard wants to know your location”
Alexia Rai no stupid
@@braxtonlewis3479 ah c'mon is a joke
petition to rename delaware to 51st state
Mr woofey Woofey r/youngpeopleyoutube it is woooosh 4 O’s kid also don’t always woooosh people because this is what will happen r/ihavereddit
Also you •Anne gummy channel
Edit: Yes you did with r/woooosh I saw you do it and you know how to delete a comment? Cool because I don’t have bad memory
Puerto Rico relationship status with the U.S :
It’s complicated.
No shit. They kinda screwed us Puerto Ricans over sometimes
If a state needs to "support itself" can we toss Mississippi out of the union?
It’s a protectorate. (At least it was in the past)
Puerto Rico “so I need this us can you give it to me?
Us”ya but you have other people who want deferent things”
Puerto Rico “can we vote”
Us “no”
Hehe
With the language thing Puerto Rico can just be our Quebec.
Or we conquer Canada so we can have two Quebecs!
FNC 7r0yd1n oh shit they're on to us
Jaden Lozada fuck u I'm puerto rican
Luis M Velez lolz
Luis M Velez How is that rude
Wait until we get 69 states that’s the real thing here
wut?
@@PhilipHami google ''69 meaning''
Giggety
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@@qurating ew
America is like Puerto Rico's deadbeat father, yeah it's ours but we never really did anything to take care of it, nor do we really claim it.
Casey M never laughed so hard at a comment
This is by far the funniest and most truthful comment ever lol😄😄
More like estranged step-father. We're present in their life enough to bail them out when they need our help.
Puerto rico got a earthquake and no one said nothing about it
99legion damn son, you mad or something? Lol
Aw, no one ever talks about Guam or American Samoa when talking about a potential 51st state.
Is Guam some sort of AIDS?
Flintstoned a state with five people in it?
Mainly because neither Guam nor American Samoa have large vocal Statehood movements like D.C. or Puerto Rico do and their populations are WAY below both D.C. and PR.. If PR got in and Guam and American Samoa's statehood movements picked up then folks would probably mention them more.
i think Guam is a likely candidate.
They need a certain amount of people to become states. Also I doubt the legality of D.C. ever becoming its own state.
If you pronounce Oregon like Ore-gone again, a blood vessel is going to pop in my head.
Yup same
HERE HERE. IT'S ORYGUN NOT OREGONE!!
It was supposed to be pronounced as uʁaɡɑ̃, not as ɒrɪɡən, but you're right, especially not as oregon.
What are people thinking? Pronouncing words as they're written?
Also the “s” in Illinois is silent
Or-ggen
I want to give this a like but hearing both "illinoice" and "oregone" drove me into a feral rage
And "succession" when he means secession.
Yes me to
Horricule as an Oregonian, this pissed me off, too.
You assholes DO know that not everyone is an American right?
@@puregarbagechannel4308 he’s American tho, regardless people pronounce things differently and these dumbasses can’t understand that
Isreal could be our 51st state. Since we give them so much money and defend them.
Colton Scharf
Canada is
In all honesty, it's probably Japan. After we nuked them we downloaded our government into their country. We CREATED Japan(or what it is today).
Khadar Knowledge
>implying it isn't Israel that owns the US
Israel has dominated US foreign policy since it crawled out of satan's womb.
You are their puppet. They are your masters.
Viet-Gong :DDD Israel doesn't own the US, but the myth that it has to be the location of an epic battle does own the minds of many US politicians.
Then they should just move there and prepare for this battle they dream so much about.
You say there's no more manifest destiny, but I see plenty of but I see plenty of planets in the solar system that are ripe for the taking.
Ethan Vuolo like Mars! we can fix it here and there...
Outer Space Treaty prohibits nations from claiming planets. But you can claim a planet for yourself.
Can I claim all of the planets and cede them to the United States?
+Ethan Vuolo
Hell yes.
It's a very big possibility that bombing the fuck out of mars would make it more habitable.
Ethan Vuolo The United States of Earth
Half Life 3 will come out before the US adds a 51st State :P
The Constitution actually prohibits the District from becoming a State. The Founding Fathers didn't want one State or another claiming they held the National Capitol City.
Weren't parts of states baned from become new states after the civil war? (like West Virgina did to Virginia) Meaning that Jefferson, Superior, Long Island, NYC, ect. can't become states.
Jackimations No they're allowed to break off to form new states but can't secede from the US. Like Texas could be split up into smaller states and it would be legal
Oh okay, so just no leaving the union then?
The current proposal does not make the Federal District go away. Instead, what it does is shrink it so that it only contains The White House, Capitol Building, the National Mall and a few other federal buildings, leaving the rest of what is now DC to form a new state. This effectively would put all residential and commercial areas in the new state which will be called "Douglass Commonwealth". So rather than the 70 square miles it currently has, the federal district would shrink down to a couple of square miles and the rest would form the new state. This fulfills the requirement that the District be under the direct control of Congress. There are already tons of federal buildings in both Virginia and Maryland, so there's not really much issue with some being in the new state also.
I believe that was floated as a possibility and Maryland didn't want it.
As an Puerto Rican myself he is right on what he saying, our economy is trash and I been having trouble finding a job. The government it's also very corrupt :/
I feel like making DC a state would go against the very reason DC exists, no?
tooled68 it will go against the very reason dc exists yes. But back when it was founded it was originally to have only the government and no gigantic city that it is today. They didn't guess it would become its own state culture
An easy solution to the DC issue is to have the land where the three branches of government sit on remain without statehood. That way the Supreme Court, Congress, and the White House would be unaffected, while DC gets to become it's own state.
Maximus Herrera yea that is the most basic reason but what if the government needs a new building and the plan says it needs to go on the state dc land?
dc wouldnt become a state if it was to become a state it would be given back to maryland
ya but many (most) countries operate fine without a special capital district. the us is a lot more stable than it was when dc was created.
The best candidate for the 51st state is the moon, and we all know it.
hell yea its the moon
Well the flag is already there so why not???
WWWWWWW
Already is one up there, it's called Cratoria. Moohoof is a fine town.
It's actually illegal based on a treaty signed by most large countries usually referred to as the Outer Space Treaty.
I was in Puerto Rico living a happy life when it filed for the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history. My father quickly gained a job in Texas and we fled the island. I was in a rather wealthier area compared to the poorer side of Puerto Rico. We are still recovering from the bankruptcy 6 years later.
You didn’t mention how Texas has a thing were if they wanted to split into 5 states
Texas is more united than United States😂😂 don't think they would split into 5 states😂
Cali was the same thing lol, the " 5 Californias ", luckily it was considered unconstitutional
@@mroof523 I think California should split into the fucking sea.
Someone watched CGP
@@mroof523 no they can't due to laws after the civil war
If a province of Canada were to leave and join the US, the country should be called: U.S.Eh?
United States of *America*
_oR aM i JuSt ToO dUmB tO gEt ThIs?_
You're just too dumb to get it. It is a play on the sound of the letter A and the stereotype of Canadians always saying Eh... with an A like sound ending with a soft h like sound.
Alberta
@@antoinebeauchemin8054 Albert-eh?
Where are the Quebec-Woah?
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Will the US have a 51st State?
I don't have a clue.
The Gentlemen Network ooh, sorry dude but you missed the yiay. better luck next time.
Paco Salgado Bad day?
Paco Salgado Bad day?
Good day?
yeah Long Island, sometime in the early 20s,
the 2020s that is
Let's be honest, if we had 49 states we would've introduced a new one. It's not a coincidence we stopped at 50, it's the fact that it's such a "perfect" number.
Exactly.
But 49 is a perfect square. If you're trying to make the stars in the corner of the flag look even, 49's better than 50. #OneBigDakota
Geo Like what would happen to the stars if there was a 51st star? Add to an old row? Change the design? Start a new row?
If there where 52 states then each could have a state card. So who gets to be the Queen of Hearts?
If we stoped at 49 or 51 then all the OCD people would lose it.
The main reason we want a 51st state is for that cool circle made up of stars on the hoist side of the flag
You're completely correct
Facts lol
Definitely
Real reason why is because we don't want to fuck up our sexy flag
Louie V we can make a sexier flag
"Except, we've been using a 51 star flag for this entire segment, and none of you have fucking noticed." - John Oliver
Preach
I like the flag used in the thumbnail
Louie V EXACTLY
One of the issues with Puerto Rico's economy is directly tied to its status within the United States. Puerto Rico is Owned by, not a Part of the United States as clarified by several US Supreme Court Decisions. The residents are birthright citizens as defined in the Jones Act of 1917. That act can be repealed. But the biggest issue is even though PR has its own elected bicameral government, it does NOT have self-rule if Congress doesn't allow it. The video mentions the bankruptcy, but it doesn't mention that the US Congress said, nope... you can't declare bankruptcy and the US Supreme Court agreed. So unlike any state or municipality, PR cannot declare bankruptcy. PR does not have control of its ports like every other state. The laws governing what ships can go to PR ports are arcane! This was one of the reasons for the delay in aide after Hurricane Maria. But one of the main reasons the PR economy was in ruins before Maria hit was due to Congress removing the business tax incentives that made the island one of the pharmaceutical capitals of the world. The tax incentives went away and so did the jobs, affecting hundreds of other businesses on the island.
Statehood would fix quite a few (not all) these issues.
As to cultural differences, and language, All Federal business must be done in English, by law, NOW. Nothing would change if it were a state. Federal business would still be in English. Also one needs to look at the history of New Mexico at the time it became a state.
Sir i have a argument
That as you know states of Arizona new Mexico in 1910 had the highest hispanic population of non immigrant origin
Ranging from 25 to 40 percent in both states
But keep in mind that thise states have anglo saxon culture and people same with hawaii too also having at least 25 percent anglo population and some asian too
But for PR it doesn't have history like Arizona new Mexico or Texas of having a anglo influence as well
Simple it is also not a diverse too become a state
Not in racial but ethnic cultural language terms
@@divyaprakash5189 So your argument against statehood is one of ethnicity? And when was the last time you were in PR? LOL
@@divyaprakash5189 You have no idea what you're talking about. PR residents are every color of the rainbow. The ethnicity is mostly European (Spain and Italy are predominant). The official numbers are: white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9%.
The number of people who speak English fluently in PR is anywhere from 50-75%. The number of people who can understand and speak some English is approaching 95%. The number of people who ONLY speak English in PR is about 7% which is about the same number as those who only speak English in Quebec, Canada.
@@tonysuarez4197 oh
If we ever get a 51st state, it will certainly be one giant Costco. If you're worried about this Costco imposing a monopoly, then relax, and listen to our sales associate tell you "I love you"
Please tell me somebody gets the reference
Dude, don't rule out those awesome fucking hot dogs either.
I like the Chicken Bakes and Berry smoothies
Obscurity we don’t have a Costco near us. Is it like a sam’s club? Or BJ’s
Obscurity They better have a good law school there
Obscurity it's from idiotrocricy 😂
Who is here after hearing Trump wanted to buy Greenland?
Me.
Me.
Em Grace moiiiiiiii(me in French if u dumb)
Me
Me
You say there's no more manifest destiny, but I see plenty of land to the north and south.
Please dont annex Mexican states like Durango,Sonora,Leon or Baja or more Canadian Providences please Im going to become an illegal on my own land and lose my culture I beg ya Mr. USA.
LegoGuy87 I mean, if you go West far enough, you come back around.
Diego Garcia Too bad. We gonna raise your country's standard of living whether you like it or not
Are you aware that Canada and Mexico are both their own sovereign countries? Besides, America are allied with both nations (moreso Canada than Mexico), so how do you propose we annex some of their land? Mexico already gave up a lot of their land to us, and I don't think they'll be willing to give up more, not even a part like Baja California.
DeadWalker318 // We won't annex them immediately. We'll invade to protect them from something, probably Commies, and create a new puppet government. Then, they'll be slowly integrated over time.
Did I hear "Illinoise"?
I AM FROM ILLINOIS, I AM ANGRY!!!!
i am from illinois and say it like that sometimes
John Stamos - You probably eat ketchup on your hot dogs too
Mark C fucking disgusting
John Stamos - yeah anybody who puts ketchup on a hot dog doesn't deserve to call themselves an Illinoisan
Dude what about Guam! You forgot to mention them! I'm totally down with Guam becoming a state!
I haven't seen anybody but myself talk about Jefferson...
Guam has like, 2 people.
Christopher Velisaris not a large enough population
Christopher Velisaris or the U.S. Virgin Islands 🇻🇮
Christopher Velisaris Population is too small.
Trump: 51st state you say?
Trump: *Looks at Greenland*
Rebel 002 yes we need to buy Greenland
imagine “The United States Empire”
Rebel 002 welp I think he knew something since the virus hit cough cough 😷 does damm plague inc players
If you are reading and you are playing that damm game stop it it’s not funny anymore you are going to kill us all
WhiteTShirtKid the American empire
@Santino The Mighty Conservative yeah we tried to buy it from the twice
Most people from Illinois (silent s) would agree that Chicago should become it's own state.
Justin S just change the state name to Chicago because that's what everybody refers to you guys as
Justin S Fuck Chicago i hope they do make them a separate state. it's a shit hole that drags on the rest of the state.
American from another state: Illinoi*s*? Ah, you live in Chicago, right?
Me: No.
Another American: Near Chicago?
Me: Wtf?? No! I live 5 hours away or so by car, no!
Chicago is the place in Illinois that everybody knows but it's trashy compared to the rest. Central and South Illinois would be better without it. Our corruption is centered in that area only basically and most of the time whether or not we are a Democrat or Republican state for an election is decided by one area of our state smh bye Chicago -_-
esprie yep, Chicago is shit hole and it's vote automatically overrides the vote of the rest of the state because it's shitcago. Most of our problems stem from how bad it is in some areas. High taxes, high shooting rates, shitty schools, and because it's relatively cheap to live in the shit part of Chicago people that live there all want tons of subsidies that Fuck over the rest of the state so that they can sit there and be useless while their daughters hoe on the corners and their sons shoot each other up, but of course the white man keeps em down cus they don't want to give them free money.
+Forsaken Plays: Uh, no it ain't a shithole. It's quite nice here. Most people enjoy living here (politics and insane taxes aside) so idk why you're so butthurt. And no it doesn't drag down the state, in fact it is directly responsible for most of the state's GDP growth and contributes over $6,000,000,000 in tax revenue (combined with the metro area it's over $10,000,000,000). The only reason the city isn't doing so good (i.e with schools, violence, etc.) is because the state doesn't have a budget. Who's to blame? Depends on who you ask, but I can tell you from my perspective partisan politics and our shitty governor (who btw still has yet to propose an adequate budget after almost 4 years in office) are just as responsible as you claim Chicago is for our state's status. The only reason our school system isn't great is because the state school districts take over 85% of the money given to them for the schools even though, collectively, they compromise around 80% of the school population in Illinois. Therefore, CPS is underfunded because of the state. Of course, you wouldn't know this because I myself went to Springfield to discuss this topic and the ignorance of you state kids is appalling. Maybe instead of bitching about it and demanding we be our own state, which will NEVER happen may I add, you can help do something ab it. Then again what more should I expect from some 14 year old prick on the internet? I digress, my main point is that without Chicago, the State of Illinois would collapse in revenue, services, transportation, etc. Why else do you think 75% of the residents in Illinois live in and around the city? Btw, we're not the most violent city in the country in terms of per capita violence, and most of it is a result of gang rivalry and takes place in largely isolated areas of the city. So no, it's a shithole you're just uninformed, sorry not sorry.
*looks at state map*
"oh we have a New mexico cool......wait...what the what the fu-.......NEW CANADA GUYS WE NEED A NEW CANADA"
Vermont should be a part of Canada
I demand a State of Jefferson.
IT SHOULD BE THE UPPER PART OF MICHIGAN!!!
Shouldn't it be Minnesota?
I want to be named a Oregonian not a Jeffifornian
Puerto Rico wouldn’t be so poor if the federal government actually cared about them
Hence why it should become a state. Then we would have to care about it
I mean.. Isn't it locally governed?
@@iamlegend5373 Exactly, The federal Government has placed unacceptable regulations on the Island such as the Jones Act forbidding the Isla from receiving imports from other countries. This alone can cripple an economy. Secondly the US has staged a lot of its military tests on the island, such as agent orange, bombs and such on Vieques, and so on without the peoples consent. Then there are companies like Bayer which realizes pesticides without peoples consent, the list goes on and on. Most of this would not be allowed based off the constitution and since the US Gov is the one being unconstitutional and they have the power over PR they will most likely not allow PR to become a state or even to seek self determination. This is defiantly example of modern colonization.
@@voli293 LoL , ok... ARE u aware of what is happening to PR? CBS reporter Do they even have a governor right now?? because with Rosello resigning the week u wrote this comment, Pierluisi as a governor for a few days... now Wanda Vazquez should be governor because is the next in line ( thats what the Constitution says) but that again is not going to happen or last for too much either because she is being investigated .... do they have a governor? do they have order?? Never had. Thanks to the US. They should have given them the statehood way before 1952.
UPDATE: as I wrote this comment Wanda Vazquez is TRENDING topic on tweeter as the new governor... PR has had 3 governor in 2 weeks... and Vazques is NOT wanted either.... this is history!
@Jay Saenz Say that in our faces and see how we break yours you little shit.
Yes
51st Puerto Rico
52nd Guam
53rd Samoa
54th US Virgin Islands
55th Northern Mariana Islands
Enough?
Total 55 stars
@@themilkman7520 eh it would be kinda dumb to have states spread from the Carribean all the way to the other side of the Pacific
should be 54 because wyoming doesn't exist
Just make it enough to have 69 states.
Funtime Foxy Gaming SSS 56th China
Funtime Foxy Gaming SSS 56th Philippines
In D.C. we really do have taxation without representation. It's very ironic.
Funny because you guys receive $1 for every 50 cents you pay through taxes.
Eh, you'll get over it.
Making D.C. a state is a terrible idea. Not only would that fuck with the rules, but it also would be tiny. The smallest state is at least 10x bigger than D.C. is. The only reason to ever make D.C. a state is so one party can have more power than the other, and that doesn't sound very democratic to me. How about we fix our large ass debt first before we go on making states.
Kyle Zaruba you completely overlooked the points previous commenters made. Making DC a state wouldn't be about giving democrats more power, itd be about giving the people that live in the nation's capitol a say in what happens to them and a voice in the halls of the capitol building down the street from their own homes.
But it was never meant to be a place to be lived in except for the president and some high ranking officials. Living in D.C. is like living in a sewer and complaining about the smell. A sewer wasn't intended to be lived in, so if you do it's your fault.
For some reason I want USA to have more states
End Light You imperialist bastard... lol.
Manifest Destiny baby! Lets go!
Somehow I want that too. And I'm not even american.
End Light the colonizer in you jumped out
lets just take over Canada.
Canada gets 10x McDonald
america gets maple sryup
fair trade off
How did this even become an anti-American politics thing?
Wait, it mentioned America.
On the internet.
Sorry, I'll just leave.
cpMetis honestly that's all you need these days
4:30 Illinoiz? The S is silent.
And you don't need to go through Ohio to get to the lower peninsula. You can go straight from Indiana to Michigan
Indian? It's spelled Indiana.
He loves ohio
Lemme guess you live in Midwest.
Me too
@@xavier7227 No. I just looked at a map
I've done that so many times @Adam Greene
Short answer: No
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Kek
what about American Samoa!?!?!?!?
*2017:* Guam will likely become the 51st state
*2018:* Ayyyo, y'all up for a new California?
It's called the United States of AMERICA, adding Pacific islands and non North American islands as a 'american' state would be stupid, it's already stupid Hawaii is considered 'america'
@@shaunbridgesc11 Hey now, the Falklands are considered British, and they're about three or four times the distance from the UK as Hawaii is from the US. If it's worth killing people for, its worth having!
*Walks away humming Rule Brittania*
Shaun Bridges: Have you ever heard of an exclave? Things do not, repeat, do NOT have to physically be attached to a country to politically be part of it. Heck, they can also be _inside_ part of another country! That's called an enclave. You should look this stuff up; it's super weird. :P
Puerto Rico: taxation without representation. sounds familiar...
kwadwo baidoo Except, Puerto Ricans receive all the benefits of American citizenship, like social security, passports, the ability to move anywhere in the Union, military protection, etc.
Puerto Ricans are even allowed to vote, just not in Puerto Rico.
Furthermore, according to the US Census, there are approx 5.372 million Puerto Ricans that live in mainland America, whereas the island itself only has 3.474 million. In other words, there are more Puerto Ricans in mainland America (about 1.6x more) than there are in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's issue is hardly "taxation without representation", and more like "Puerto Rico can't handle financial responsibility", like Greece in Europe.
JuanDVene It's not a "Puerto Rico can't handle financial responsibility," it's a "Puerto Rico hasn't been given the chance to make changes or a voice." This mainly due to the US exploiting Puerto Rico.
TheLizaida12 The only thing the US may have done to bring about this financial tragedy is former Prez Clinton signing on legislation to phase out Section 936, which have tax leeway to US corporations in PR as an incentive for corporations to bring money to PR. I admit, this was one of the main factors that led to PR's current state.
However, the crux of the crisis is mostly due to government mismanagement in PR's part. PR's total land area is barely bigger than Delaware's, yet Delaware only has 3 counties, while PR has 78 distinct municipalities, each with its own mayor that must be payed. In 2012, Metro Puerto Rico reported that the total budget for the municipalities is just over $2 million, yet the sum of all the mayors' salaries is nearly $5 million. If that's not mismanagement I don't know what is.
Furthermore, there is a lot of tax evasion that occurs in PR. NotiCel (a PR news site) reported that there could be around 300,000 people who are reporting lower wages than what they actually receive, but the tax system in PR doesn't match the report from taxpayers with the report from employers, so it's difficult to tell who is lying in their tax forms.
Independence isn't going to fix these issues. It'll just make them worse, however PR citizens will also lose the ability to move to the US without a passport, which would displace the millions of Puerto Ricans living in the mainland. It would also eliminate Medicaid/Medicare from PR, take away military protection, and just all around worsen the economy.
Just don't turn to a "Tea Party"... It won't actually "do" anything...
While I definitely agree with your statements in terms of the corruption, especially the island's mayors, there's a lot more that is damaging to Puerto Rico and it's people as a result of a vast history of the US taking advantage of its colony (...because let's be honest, that's what PR is ) that's being ignored whenever PR and its crisis is covered. Even as US citizens, they lack the power to make enough changes due to their lack of representation in Congress. As US citizens, Puertoricans are constantly treated as 2nd class citizens, regardless of how many PuertoRican men and women enlist and serve the US military.
Some of the vast history includes other laws, even before Clinton, that suppressed Puertoricans into the situation they are in right now.
You are absolutely right that independence isn't the ultimate answer, however, the current situation as a territory is of absolutely no help. And the PROMESA act is further proof that the US has no intentions of actually aiding Puerto Rico and its people past taking even more control away from its people. Closing down public school and hospitals, decreasing minimum wage to 4.25/hr, depleting University funding, and much more.
Puertoricans are trapped in a situation that sky rocketed as a result of the Jones Act, but there's more to it and I just don't believe it can simply be summed up as "mismanagement" by the Puerto Rico.
The U.P. Can never leave Michigan
We gave up Toledo for it
I'm from New York and from what I see almost the entirety of New York outside the city is Republican alot of people dont realize this but I'm around 20 minutes outside the city and it's a pretty suburban area lots of forests and houses have lots of property and the further up in the state you go the more rural it gets the city is just what everybody thinks about when they hear New York
City's always tend to be democrat and rural areas are republican it's not really suprising
I live in a small city in New York and most people complain and protest because the Congressman that was voted for is republican
connor 31556 so cut off Manhattan and LI and make that one state and upstate another state? One republican one dem?
I'm from Long Island and I think we need to secede from the of the State of NY, Cuomo's ideas are a nightmare,
I'm an LI separatist,
hopefully Long Island becomes it's own state,
we are not a Subject of Albany, and we will no longer be this state's piggy bank,
Long Island must become a state, I'm sure Trump would support our bid for Statehood, but Cuomo would probably try to stop us at every turn,
I believe several years ago mayor Bloomberg joked around with the idea of NYC becoming it’s own state. I think he was partially serious at the same time though. I’m from NYC and I actually wouldn’t mind us becoming our own state. I feel like a lot of our money goes to Albany and they just squander it most of the time.
U forgot the last possibility
CONQUER CANADA 😂
It won't be hard there 2 nice to stop u.s
You lot tried that before and it did not end well for the US
Bonfire Heart ya but that was before America became a world super power. Fuck that was before the American Civil War. All I’m saying is things have changed...a lot.
Shut up, that's not nice
Bonfire Heart, it happened in 1812. It happened well before the U.S. became the most powerful country in the world.
how come longisland wasnt mentioned. there has been pushes for it to break off from ny because longisland is generally red and ny is generally blue. also the fact that many longislanders feel its unfair of the amount of taxes they pay for how little actually get put back to those on the island
All that tax money is sunk into DeBlasio's blue-stained budget. #LI51
*Our Island is garbage. Trust me. I live here.*
True
Long Island Freedom
Looking for this exact comment. He mentions NYC seceeding from NY but not Long Island from NY, when NY and NYC are both Blue?
What about the Navajo nation becoming the 51st state, I mean they're basically already a state.
It's a reservation and the reason it isn't is because the US government felt bad for the whole trail of tears thing so gave them little pockets around the country to call home. It becoming a state would be complicated as the reservations are bottomless pits of asterisks.
@@switchplayer1016 yep
The whole point of Indian reservations is that it's their own land in Wich they mostly govern themselves.
Good work Tyler. Great video, liked the wierd color changes. Really artistic and unique, looked like a documentary.
one more option: Canada was already ratified, they can join any time they want.
Especially nowadays when the only alternative to the US annexing Canada is Justin Bieber, I mean Trudeau.
lol why would we? We are under Britain, Canada is a proud and royalist country. We would never join, for we have no reason to.
Bacchus even if Phillip becomes king?
nope you are still under british rule kinda
dangerouslytalented Why would Canada want to join a 3rd world country like the US
"51 states..."
*"When did we lose a state?"*
one person liked my comment so now it looks like I liked my own... ;-;
James Lee uh sir you need to go back to school and learn to do math
James Lee there's 50. 52 states was just the Mandela effect
James Lee california left the u.s. when trump was elelcted
I remember being told when I was young that there were 52 states. Underrated comment.
What if we split up the country into 13 districts and do this thing called the hunger games
Nope. Bad idea.
@@Iliadic It was a joke
Yes
@@Jafflefields Nope bad idea
Nope, good idea
*goes to Toledo*
"Hey do you know where I can find Cody, from AlternateHistroyHub?"
"You mean THE Cody from AlternateHistroyHub?"
"Yes"
"Take a left and the second house down you'll find Cody, from AlternateHistroyHub"
"Thanks Tyler, from AlternateHistroyHub"
"No problem"
Why would that happen in Toledo?
btw u spelled history wrong
Christopher Winne because Cody lives in Toledo
4:32 Did he say IllinoiS?
He also said Or Ray gone
Ikr!!!
isn't Puerto Rico just a more Spanish florida 😂.
Don't compare anything to Florida!
not even close, Florida isn't that big of a shit hole
Don't compare anything to Puerto Rico!
Why is that funny
Interdiemnsonal Criminal walrus because it's not that different and I've been there . I'm from new York but my friend from florida told me it was just like where she lives. she said stuff like houses , beaches and shops were similar. so as a 51st state it wouldn't be too different from a state we already have.
Just imagine a blue state Washington D.C. during a Republican presidency...big oof
Mathieson they already vote blue during Republican presidencies. DC is the only non-state place who vote in the electoral college
Literally what's happening today.
We can't let Democrats turn DC into a state. The only reason why they'd want that is to get 2 more places in the Senate, because DC is obviously a Democrat-run city.
CroatiaMati partisanship is not important. Representation is. Plus the less republicans during the trump presidency the better.
@@jacksonb1265 "Partisanship is not important." "The less Republicans the better."
There are lots of people in "upstate" NY that want nothing more than to separate from "downstate" and the line would probably drawn somewhere around Westchester county. Upstate and downstate have completely different politics and in many ways culture. People here see the will of NYC being thrust upon them by people who have no idea what their lives are like. I know it is extremely unlikely but it is a recurring topic of discussion.
Yeah, I live in upstate NY and it's definitely not the first time I've heard of it.
lyonbrpi people always think of NYC when someone says NY
I live in NYC and living here is absolutely awful.
TearsLubricant then leave NYC is great upstate is cool but it's more Alabama than New York so I fully support the secession but only above dutchess county since it's part of our metro area
lyonbrpi I live in western New York buffalo and the taxes seem to be so expensive because of NYC and I would support a split
Speaking as someone from Long Island (Nassau County) you are absolutely right. Upstate and Downstate couldn't be anymore different which is nuts since we're all the same state. But then again Long Island feels like it's own state sometimes. I'm going to transfer college to the Hudson Valley area and my Dad being from Queens thinks everyone's a hick upstate. But I don't share that sentiment.
I just want a 51st state because I like new flags.
My man.
As long as they don't put writing on it.
Also it'll improve the economy because people will be buying new flags and it'll boom the industry for a little while
Me too.
I want a 51st state because I like new welcome signs.
As a person who's been living in New York City for over 12 years, I have never even heard of a movement where we would become a state. And honestly, theres no reason to leave.
If the city became it's own state then Long Island should too, but why the hell would we do that? That'd be dumb, pointless, and be a huge waste of time and money.
Ilhan Bayram Yalcin The movement now is to cut long island and by city and they would become New York and Update New York would become New Amsterdam.
A pet thought I had was to combine the outlying US territories into a state: Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. They have a combined population of about 3.7 million ( between Connecticut and Oklahoma ), and a GDP if ~$115B ( in-between Mississippi and Nebraska).
It might be understandable if only the Pacific island chains of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands combine into just one state, but the logistical issue of combining a state from both the Atlantic Carribean (Puerto Rico & Virgin Is.), a southern Pacific (American Samoa), and the aforementioned island chains of Guam and N. Mariana will be a logistical nightmare, and will be ineffective in establishing a strong enough state government. Picking a capital city will already be a huge problem in itself considering the huge distance between the islands.
Combining Puerto Rico with American Samoa? Wtf?
Illinois has the Silent S... I got triggered
Alex and Co USA I say the S just to trigger people
Alex and Co USA I say the S bc that's how I thought we say it
Alex and Co USA if you don't know how to pronounce Illinois just move to Canada please
IndominusRekts ironic that you say canada due to French being an official language and French is the reason for the silent s.
yeah that's why they should move to Canada and learn how to pronounce it then comeback. lol
The language is not a problem because there is no official language of the United States. It's just that all states have mostly English speakers. The land that the US got from Mexico spoke mostly English because a ton of Americans move there because it was so easy to immigrate to Mexico.
Rixton That still doesn't mean that the official language is English. The US is made up of the three colonial powers. The British speak English, the French speak FRENCH, not English, and the Spanish speak SPANISH. At the time people there spoke one of those or other languages. Native Americans also live in the continental United States. The reason why there is no official language now is because a ton of immigrants come to the United States and most don't speak English.
Beautiful Person Multiple languages equal miscommunication imo. I get your point though. Although English is the lingua franca of the world thanks to the US anyways
UK*. You wouldn't be speaking english if the UK hadn't colonised North America, and like everywhere else in the entire world. Although the US was certainly an important part of globalising the English language tbf.
IntricateDesign well French was always the language of diplomacy that changed with overwhelming u.s influence in the world especially after world war 2
emconite gamez He's right though. Had the UK not been heavily involved in the colonization of North America, there would be no US (at least as we know it) to influence the change you talked about.
What? Puerto Rico speaks spanish and because of that it can't be a state?!
In Texas they speak Texan and you let them be a state
Yeh! Y'be raght! Geemme lehbertyeh or geemme deth!
LOL😂
If that’s what Texans speak I’m going to genocide you lone star bastards
Đ.G. BLACKS hAvE yOu EvEr hEaRd Of hUmUoR
@@orcawalrus4561 r/woooooooosh
@@ericsilver9401 Texan here, I found it hilarious.
Just invade the United Kingdom, it would be the ultimate irony. Besides, given what's happening here right now, it can't be much worse.
@@insulam821 " May" end, key word there being "May".
And Mr President has to go away sometime.
@@insulam821 language barrier not a problem? Someone's never been to scotland
We almost became part of the USA in the 70s but we got in to the ei instead
@@horricule451 IDK why buy i read that in a scottish accent
Well it would be really bad because the rest of Europe and maybe some parts of the east would get involved
The pronunciations weren't great. Oregon and Illinois were mispronounced and you said succession instead of secession
not his fault that english is inconsistent
Zerydinium 371 Go to any online dictionary and have it say Illinois or Oregon for you, I promise it will be the same every time
oh, no, i am not talking about that, i am talking about the ways words are pronounced.
Zerydinium 371 exactly, even in different states they pronounce words differently.
you look like the scout from tf2
As a Puerto Rican, if Puerto Rico could become the 51st state that'd be amazing.
Likely Canditades
Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Guam 🇬🇺
DC
Not true. If anything he only one out of your list would be Guam. It is semi stable. There is little support behind it though
I’d love for Puerto Rico to be a state! But I’m fairly sure the citizens of Puerto Rico don’t wish for that to happen
Ur mom can be a state as well
@@stinky9706 im Puerto Rican and I wish it would be a state haha. Oh and btw I thought PR was already a state LOL
@@stinky9706 Actually statehood won over commonwealth and independence some time ago and it did so decisively i think what happened is that congress did not give Puerto Rico the chance due to the economy.
Did you say illinoiS? It’s pronounced ILLINOI
Doesn't matter how you say it... your roads are by far are terrible.
he also said OR-e-gAn, not OR-e-gen
@@remenencenda768 oh
@@ThemissouriTraveler The roads in Misery are just as bad.
I think North Korea would be a nice choice for 51st state. Can you imagine how pissed China would be.
Rahxephon Manga Taiwan would make China even happier
North Korea would backstab the shit out of us, Americans are their number 1 enemy, so they will never have a place in our country.
Rahxephon Manga and no more war with korea
I think you mean South Korea. North Korea are our enemies.
XenomorphGamer XX121 then japan wouldn't be happy
Maybe the United States could possibly become the 51st state of the United States?
Brillant. Give this man a spot on the UN Security Council... stat!
The United States would litterally consume all the states, leaving 1 state.....
Uhhh.............What?😒😒😒
Uh...
*Oil*
My head hurts
Southern/Central and Northern Illinois.
Drastically different economically, politically, and culturally. The Chicago area has political dominance over most of the state and it has been hurting the central and southern portions of the state for a long time now.
same thing with Michigan, greater Detroit and Flint do more harm than good to the rest of the state.
@@1978atcarroll Michigan is a totally different situation. Flint and Detroit are getting bailed out financially by the rest of the state.
Chicago does not drain money from the rest of Illinois (or as pronounced in the video Illinoiz). What Kwansu claims is that Chicago oppresses the rest of the state by being a bully.
What about Liberia? Many times they have had pushes to join the US as a state
Adonis KYT [HTTYD] lol stop
One thing
*THEY ARE IN AFRICA!*
Yes this is a fat cat Hawaii is the *50th State* and it isn’t even on *NORTH AMERICA*
@@Astrosvanity Hawaii is still twice as close to the US
Yes this is a fat cat France has a state in South America
I still say the United State government should just make the 5 island territories (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa) states already and guarantee the people born there full U. S. citizenship! I mean come on, if these nearly 4 million people are born as American citizens (save for American Samoa), can fight and die in America's wars, are allowed to vote in the primaries (but not the Presidency), and are lands where U. S. currency is used, why not make them full states? Simply put, being an American born on 1 of the 5 island territories is like being at an all-you-can buffet but only allowed to use 1 plate; what's the point of only having partial benefits to being here given that you can't have full benefits like every1 else? And in case any1 is wondering, I am from Texas but I know people from my university who are from Puerto Rico and some say they feel it would be best if they just became a state already.
Jesse Torres You can become a full US citizen if you're born in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Guam. Not sure about the others. Also Puerto Rico is allowed to vote in the primaries.
Most of those territories do not fill the requirement of a population of 60,000. Puerto Rico contains the vast majority of non-state US "citizens"
Jesse Torres how's college?
Jesse Torres With a Republican Congress and these lands most likely to vote for a Democrat for President, sadly it will not happen soon. Republicans in power fill lije they must stay in power. No Dems allowed...lol. Pure politics
Apple Lysol come on down to Texas
An in depth research would reveal that most Puertorricans do speak English, further, same research would also reveal that the US imposes laws,rules and regulations into Puerto Rico that inpeads Puerto Rico from doing business and obtain incomes (legally) that other states have available to them. Yes, culturally Puerto Rico is very different, but every year it becomes more and more "americanized" and less hispanic. Hawaii is a real bad example since Hawaii was taken by force from the royal family thru several double crosses by American industrialist with the help of the US Navy. If you were to travel back in time and the true Hawaiians knowing what they know now would they like to be a state I would be willing to bet they (the natives) would say hell no. That choice was taken from them. Puerto Rico will never be a state regardless of economic well being. To understand why not look at the problems NM, and Arizona had, and they had a big population of Anglos, you think that the Congress is going to grant statehood to a bunch of fill tje blank... Am from the island and I don't see that ever happening.
Ya unlike Texas, Hawaii was taken by force.
If they wanted us (Puerto rico) to be a state they would have made us one in 1917 instead of just granting us a light citizenship.
Gabriel Ramos they dont want us has state and the citizenship well ww1 was goin on and they needed soldier s I womder what the pr people of that time would have chosen XD aka they needed soldiers and we have been brainwashes into believed that Nacionalismo is evil while if u read PR history in the beginning of 1940 we wanted independence but america told us pay 2 million and u declare war on us so guess they basically said kneel or die sad but true
As an upstate New Yorker, I really want NYC to be its own state.
McDolan what about Long Island?
Keveneven maybe Long Island can stay. They're ok.
McDolan I support president Trump and everything he is doing god bless his soul and our xountry
My grandparents live near Syracuse, and they say that upstate and downstate depend on each other economically, as much as they both hate to admit it (and with many downstaters not knowing that upstate even exists). I, myself, used to live near Ithaca, and I am inclined to agree with my grandparents.
McDolan coming from Brooklyn no it would single handedly be the most dense country ever, only being 5 boroughs and having about 1m people.
"Illi-Noise" bruh
Did he say *IllinoiS??*
Jacorp I WAS ABOUT TO COMMENT THAT
Jacorp Some people pronounce it that way in certain parts of the country. Like where i live
I usually pronounce it Illinois but I sometimes find myself saying IllinoiS
this is coming from Indiana
just cause other parts of the country may say it a way doesn't mean it's right. it's a silent s. saying the s will just trigger 12 million people
some folks will mispronounce it just for that triggering effect dominic. Oregon is another fun one for that. I've heard some epic debates between the last syllable being "Gun" or "Gone" as the proper way to say it.
We will build a state and make Mexico pay for it lol
64 yes obviously it's not Mexico's fault it's mostly Obama he gave us half of American debt so Thanks Obama
Toy Boy and bush
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Mexico_Movement
Racism played a role in ensuring it didn't occur
books.google.com/books?id=FZVQcZpic-8C&lpg=PA13&dq=racism%20%22all%20of%20mexico%20movement%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=racism%20%22all%20of%20mexico%20movement%22&f=false
Jalu3 I see that you are using a very reputable source
Mexico will not pay for the focken state.
The 51st state is Canada.
52nd is Mexico
Sirbeary - lmao I hope not
Sirbeary - No
the way things are going I could see them being annexed with how many people hate Trudy
The Gentlemen Network
Canada has 3 territories and 10 provinces. Therefore if Canada ever joins the United states. there will be 10-13 states. Why 10-13? because Nunavut is very poor, and nobody wants the north.
We almost became the 51st state..but it didn't happened...
Storm area 51
Damnit. It's pronounces "ill uh noy" not "ill uh noise"
ThatSpyGuy exactly it pissed me off when people say that
USSC Lego and mega bloks ill i noice lol
Dekatovikk no Illinois is pronounced I'll a naw e
and Oregon is pronounced "or i gin" not "or e gone"
illy nose?
Not to be rude but 66% or two thirds of the congress have to aprove not over 50%
Yeah coming from a British guy I though it was something like that.
I'm American -#MERICAFuckYa
If it's over 66% it's also over 50%
THAD POLENSKI he was also suggesting that 51% to 65% would be enough for approval
GeeksBasement It's enough for me
*LET'S MAKE MARS A STATE!* #2040
@Hiraga Saito what should we call it though?.. The State of Luna?.. Artemis?.. How about the state of Tsukuyomi? Or maybe just Kuyomi State. I'd like incorporating Greek and Japanese gods into the names of states. 😊
Marssachusetts
@@yusuf-5531 Aresona
DC shouldn't become a state, it should become part of maryland (the virginia part was all given back a while ago already) and either separate sections of the city as federal government and therefore not under the laws of the state, or simply make federally owned land in the city not be part of the state. As to New York City, while those policies do sound q but absurd, the idea of New York City separating from New York state makes a lot of sense. While it's not entirely this simple, to a large extent anything new york state does has to be 1 thing for NYC, something else for the rest of the state. So, the obvious solution is have the city leave the state.
So you want shitloads of people who work in NYC but live on Long Island or in Westchester County to suddenly lose any little bit of say they already had in the place they spend most of their waking hours?
The NYC metro area should split off from the other three states.
Philippines was very near, but then something weird happened..🤔
You called nationalism weird??? I thanked god president quezon and others politician kicked them out.... a proof they didnt forgot what americans did during Phil-American war...
@@wilmaolandres uhh, chill man I'm not saying that they should be a state of america, its also good that they were independent, because they wanted to since the 333 years colonization of spain :D
@@wilmaolandres and look Philippines now. Lmao! Talking about nationalism. The country sucks.
@@BertWithoutErnie Ouch. Hey, we ain't that bad compared to many failed states in Mid East, Africa and South Asia. Anyway, I think overpopulation & racism will get in the way.
@@mangojuice7666 can't even par with asian neighbors. No city master planning at all. You know why? You guys still voting idiots in the government
I see California dividing into 2 separate states before Puerto Rico or DC
He didn't claim it would serve good, he just claimed that he thinks it's more likely California would split than DC or Puerto Rico becoming states.
Marcus that's we're your wrong my good friend Puerto Ricans already voted to become state. we just have to wait if the government agrees which I hope they don't
that same "taxation without representation" ideology can be applied to us people in California that dont live in LA county or the Bay Area.
Give one benefit Puerto Rico would give to the US if they became a state? I think the opposite, they need to become their own sovereign nation.
What about Rosie O'Donnell?
SaiyaMan2011 LMAO
johnmburt1960 It was a joke...
SaiyaMan2011 I'm dead 😂😂
johnmburt1960 it was a fact not joke
johnmburt1960 how does a joke work
Yes. We call it Puerto Rico.
Saved you 7 minutes of your life.
To who?, Cuba?
No one doesn't call it Puerto Rico
I know this is a joke
But for the last time
We’re just territory
And stop stealing our sugar
@@ohboy8781 lol
@@ohboy8781 lol 😂
what about guam
Commando Online no one likes Guam...
Solution? Start conquering again
Quick blame Mexico for a sunken ship so we can attack
Shintaro Tagetama *canada
How about both
Y'all know the imperialism is no longer a monetarily sound subject.
England!
Damn no that's a city not a state, sorry.
Nice meme
Why would you only take 1/3 of the island?
Because you want to push the other two for a couple more states.
Brexit so hard they end up in Trumpistan :D
I like your graphs like the unemployment rate they are very emotive and honestly quite a bit trippier than I imagined figurative representations of numeric values could ever be
*Laughs in New Californian*
*Laughs in Disappointment*
Laughs at New California
*crys in Chinese*
Guam?
Ayeominex lol Guam is a colony of the USA
maybe together with the Northern Mariana Islands....
Guam has the exact same status as a territory as Puerto rico.. i live on Guam. ignorant white people
Ikr
Jet Smith he suggested that Guam could be a state, not that it is.
Never thought we would attempt to make the NCR a new state
Thats a purgin the double headed bear better be it's flag.
How else would we take down Caesar?
A 51 state?
That's Area 51.
😐
@@cyh..7 😑
Make the moon a state! #2018
Impossible, there was a pact that basically says that:
The Moon belongs to no one, nor may anyone claim it.
SurGe Major break the pact
Cali IS splitting in two and they are serious this time.
ruclips.net/video/jbPJgEpT57M/видео.html
PTSDSquirrel I heard at least they are not trying to leave the United States....
Nope they want to remain and OLD cali can leave if they want, but let see how they do JUST being a city state.
As a Canadian you guys are more than welcome to take Quebec.... actually well pay you... please...
Naaa we'll take Alberta. It has oil. And I believe it's the only Canadian province that has a secessionist movement, so there. Also, oil!
Bill Bo Haggins Based on your many comments, I have concluded that you don’t even know what Marxism is.
Bill Bo Haggins You evidently have no idea what Marxism is. Marxism is an ideology that advocates a forceful revolution to overthrow the “bourgeoise” and create a utopian society where all property is publicly owned, all people are totally equal, and personal rights do not exist. That is not the democratic socialism that is practiced in countries like Canada, which is far less radical.
The 51st state is obviously going to be Canada xdddd
Stop being mean to Canada. Not nice.
Brianna Weaver Soorry, eh? xdddd
You mean North Montana
Fun fact: The US tried invading Canada. Twice. Once in 1775 and again during the war of 1812. Turns out that Canadians can be pretty bad ass when necessary.
99batran canada is a country, not a fucking state lol
Just one small contribution, New Mexico, according to its constitution is also a bilingual state, Spanish and English, both being official languages. So, Puerto Rico is not the ONLY officially bilingual political entity in the USA and if we look at Guam, the Chamorros also have their own language and English. So, I guess that makes at least two more? Interesting video.