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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  1371 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: House Democrats poised to pass DC statehood bill

I don't know that Samoa could do anything about becoming a state but they have weird land ownership laws that would be unconstitutional under statehood and a lot of the locals prefer the system they have





steve  ·  1371 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yah... there's a voice on American Samoa that doesn't necessarily want statehood. Shoot - there's a voice on Hawaii that doesn't want statehood.

tacocat  ·  1371 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pretty sure the voice on Samoa is motivated by what happened to Hawaii