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Puerto Rico Vote Pro-Statehood
As an unincorporated territory Puerto Rico has voice but it doesn't have a vote so it has a representative there that can say whatever they want but they can't vote. In this sign that gabrila found it says vote pro-statehood in what we call in Puerto Rico un pevicito a plevisite which is a fancy word for a referendum. People get obsessed over them because it's a barometer to know where people's minds are at and what the populace wants. Ben: It's important to talk about how this discussion within a museum like the with me and the museum of american art you know it's important to talks about citizenship and unjustly
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