Having presidents on our bills and coins is bad enough.
Right, but why wouldn’t they? We took Utah for chrissakes.
Puerto Rico’s median household income is about $20,000 per annum, or approximately half that of the mainland U.S.
Does the law allow the US to sell land to another country.
I was thinking specifically of Point Roberts, WA. It is a cut off nothing piece of land to the US - but the land would be very valuable to Canada due to its proximity to a major city.
So, could a cash strapped and heavily indebted US sell pieces of the country off, bit by bit, to another country? Maui to the highest bidder?
Will the map or flag of the USA ever change again?
Canadian territories are created by acts of Parliament (in this case the Nunavut Act 1993), unlike provinces, which are created through constitutional amendments. Even there, the creation of Nunavut was the fruit of a couple of decades of land-claims process, and had the advantage that the territory in question was mostly ethnically homogeneous (83.6% Inuit).
Y’know, I think that design has already been taken 
I think they’ll let us use it.
AClockworkMelon is “tea partying” his posts, I do believe. :rolleyes:
I can’t resist a joke.
I’m not surprised to hear political leaders are innumerate but surely it’s not that bad!
What would the two states be called? Surely not New York and Newer York. I thought New York was named after New York, so perhaps Upstate would have to adopt a new name.
This surprised me! Do you have a cite?
What with global warming I think changes are inevitable; I doubt we’ll be able to stop the flooding. For that matter, there’s also the possibility that if we don’t outright collapse, we could end up grabbing parts of Antarctica after the ice sheet melts.
There are of course other possibilities. A nuclear war could easily cause the breakup of the country as it rebuilds from separate enclaves of civilization, for example. Or something similar could happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts or some similar massive disaster.
And as said, America like every other country isn’t going to last forever. So, of course the map will change.
There’s a fair amount of North/South tension too, and occasional talk of splitting. As the water situation gets worse and the South tries to grab water from the North (it has tried to do so in the past), I could see that leading to a split. That might cause splits elsewhere in the country; since we are using water faster than it is replenishing itself (we use a lot of water that was originally deposited underground in the last glacial period), eventually there are going to be water conflicts all over.
Sooner or later the United States will crack up the way the Soviet Union did, and for much the same reasons (i.e. economic and political paralysis, and racial and ethnic divisions). Most likely parts of the southwest with Hispanic majorities will either rejoin Mexico, or will become independent Hispanic nations. The rest of the United States will either split along regional lines or remain together, greatly weakened economically, politically and militarily.
I’m guessing this will happen some time during the middle decades of this century, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened sooner.
Or not. Hell, I’m not God. Nobody really knows the future.
Getting english taught in puerto rican and cuban schools has major ramifications. it’d be landmark for 2 different reasons:
- English isn’t the national language. To declare that schools have to teach in english would probably necessitate that declaration.
- Schools are governed mostly on a state (or territorial) level. This would be a federal mandate on curriculum, which is something that we could actually use right now in light of the texas textbook controversy.
neither of these things would be done easily, and would probably not happen for a very long time.
also, hawaii’s annexation was pushed through because both dems and pubs were looking for votes to tip the balance of segregation laws. it seemed like puerto rico missed the boat on statehood after the passing of Obamacare.
unless the cuban population in south florida are also high powered executives of Chiquita and Dole (more sinisterly known as United Fruit and Standard Fruit) then i doubt that they would have any sway over the FDI of Cuba.
Per example, you’re from San Fran. I’m sure there are just boatloads of Chinese-Americans in your area. Do you think the sizable sino-american population there has anywhere near the sort of clout that the very anglo Walton clan from ARKANSAS has in China?
Don’t sell yourself short there, or anything. 
Looks like he’s right. Check the map here: Connecticut Western Reserve - Wikipedia
This secession movement is unlikely to ever bear fruit. But if it were right on the border…: Killington, Vermont secession movement - Wikipedia
I tend to doubt that the map or flag of the U.S. will be changing anytime soon. Things are pretty well settled now, and likely to remain so (although annexing a post-Castro Cuba is an intriguing prospect; with an estimated population of about 11.5 million, it’d get two U.S. senators and about 20 Members of Congress right off the bat).
I’m a OC man actually.
Ew. The stars aren’t even equidistant. It’s like looking at a sphere as represented on paper.