# Statehood for D.C.? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 24, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-d-c/921442 "2020-09-24T21:15:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 116
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-d-c/921442/116 "2020-10-03T15:55:10Z")
Well, I think you’re both wrong. Why don’t we take it to a new P&E topic? or to the existing GD topic? > [@Statehood for Puerto Rico?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-puerto-rico/921465): > > This move is not on the Dems’ platform but they’re clearly favorable to considering it, and PR is having yet another statehood referendum in November. This is not like DC statehood. There are two special problems: PR is poor. No state was previously admitted to the Union until English-speaking whites had become a majority (or at least, as in the case of Hawaii, the dominant culture). That will never happen in PR. It will always be part of the Latin American culture. Statehood means re… ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-d-c/921442)._