New Push for Puerto Rican Statehood

Puerto Ricans are a defiant people. In four elections, they have told supporters of U.S. territorial expansion, "Thanks but no thanks, we don't want to become the 51st state."

But "No" is never an acceptable answer to modern U.S. Manifest Destiny advocates who are determined to push American power deep into the Caribbean, notwithstanding those stubborn Puerto Ricans.