Seriously tho, the book How to Hide an Empire gets into how white settlement, or the percentage of population that's white in a given state, is the #1 criteria for admittance to US statehood. Thus why the US southwest and Hawaii were the last states to be added, and why PR is still a territory, and washington dc doesn't have a vote.
"our country" uh its their country too puerto rico is america
Seriously tho, the book How to Hide an Empire gets into how white settlement, or the percentage of population that's white in a given state, is the #1 criteria for admittance to US statehood. Thus why the US southwest and Hawaii were the last states to be added, and why PR is still a territory, and washington dc doesn't have a vote.