yup.
in USA, because of “state rights” (which are extended to territories) you have 2 political relationships :
1. the federal CITIZENSHIP
2. the state or territory RESIDENCY
so, when you move across state or territory lines, you can’t immediately vote in your new locality. you can vote in federal elections if resident of the 50 + G̶u̶a̶m̶, but if you move to & become a resident of La Isla or US Virgin Islands, you can’t.
folks always forget the USVIs.
TL;DRH we never wanted to be a state, the gringos who stole our land never wanted us to be a state, and Spain back-stabbed us.
by us, i mean the working classes, not the landowning managers of La Corona & gringolarchy.
so we’ve been in a limbo, sometimes bombing you gringos with guerrillas or musicians.
as it stands: way before owing us independece, USians owe us reparations; ie: Puerto Rico is taíno land denied to millions of us gaslighted about not surviving genocide
yup.
in USA, because of “state rights” (which are extended to territories) you have 2 political relationships :
1. the federal CITIZENSHIP
2. the state or territory RESIDENCY
so, when you move across state or territory lines, you can’t immediately vote in your new locality. you can vote in federal elections if resident of the 50 + G̶u̶a̶m̶, but if you move to & become a resident of La Isla or US Virgin Islands, you can’t.
folks always forget the USVIs.
@blogdiva @fromjason @gbargoud @clive @rejinl I didn’t realize the USVI don’t have federal voting rights. Why is that? Are they a different kind of territory?
@blogdiva @fromjason @gbargoud @clive @rejinl And then American Samoans just don't get to vote even after moving to the 50 states which makes no sense at all: https://boltsmag.org/prosecuted-for-voting-american-samoans-alaska/
@fromjason @clive @rejinl @blogdiva
This of course means that if I was to move from NY to Egypt (or any other country but that's where I have another citizenship so that's the example I'm using), I would have more rights federally than if I were to move from NY to Puerto Rico or another territory
This is so clearly absurd and yet just how it is
aha, okay, that makes more sense!
there’s more about this, of course, but DNA evidence of our taíno ancestry (⅓ of us have direct anscestors, not just chromosomal markers) has made us even more determined about our separate & independent cultural identities: Puerto Rico is a nation where Caribbean, African, EU and other cultures have their own very Puerto Rican cultural expressions.
Borikén is millenia older than USA. Puerto Rico existed 250 years BEFORE USA.
we want what has been denied to us since 1898.
Ostensibly it's because when Puerto Rico voted to become a state, there wasn't enough voter turnout, and the USA won't stand for low voter turnout. How could an election possibly be valid if only 45% of the population voted? Not anything like US elections, no sirree.
