OT: Strange future for down-under?

[Sinapus]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:

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Originally posted by TerranC:

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Originally posted by Sinapus:
Hate to break this to you, but statehood has been put up to a vote in Puerto Rico. They said "no". (Same with independence.)

Umm, it was a joke. It wasn't meant to be a real comment.

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Statehood would be up to them, but independance would be decided here in Washington. They will get it, even if they don't want it.

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Actually, the plebescite in 1967 had three options: remain a Commonwealth, become a State, or become an independent nation.

Independence got about 1% of the vote.

(Hm. Looks like there was another vote in 1991 where commonwealth status won again, but by a smaller margin than in the previous one. Statehood was 2nd place.)

So that's at least two instances where the choice was put to a vote.