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Will never happen. Their population is high enough that they would get maybe 5 congressional seats and 7 electoral votes, all of which would likely be Democratic. No Republican controlled House will entertain that idea, not in a million years. Maybe if Dems take back the House in 2014, but presidents usually lose seats in the mid terms.
Yeah. I don't see Repubs ever allowing those US citizens statehood if doing so is detrimental to their ability to hold power on any level. I just wonder what rhetorical narrative they will barf up as justification. Something something spending, something something can't afford uptick in use of social services, something something not what founding fathers intended etc.