all of these deserve US statehood, if their residents choose it
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands 
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands
Washington DC
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They've chosen against independence, multiple times.
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Then they should have representation. This isn't hard, there shouldn't be second class US citizens based on geography.
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Absolutely, I think we need to respect the democratic will of the residents of those places. we have denied them that for far too long
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It is a very well settled principle in International Law that statehood is a valid method of decolonization.Please refer to the Applicable UN Resolutions on colonial territories...Consequentially, statehood is not deepening colonialism, it is decolonization,enfranchisement


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*Hawai’i enters the chat*
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Right, Hawai'i is a warning for how colonialism gets worse after statehood not better.
#California was also invaded & conquered in 1846, against the will of the native groups & the Californios who had already been in#CA a long time before the Americans invaded from the east. - Näytä vastaukset
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