Steve Pope wrote:

> Dave > wrote:
>
>
>>Mark Thorson wrote:
>
>
>>>Statehood is granted on a politically balanced basis,
>>>for example Hawaii (Democrat) and Alaska (Republican)
>>>were admitted at about the same time. The current
>>>best prospects for states 51 and 52 are admission of
>>>Puerto Rico (Democrat) and Guam (Republican).
>>>
>>>How would we balance admission of the UK? Also,
>>>note that we probably could only admit England.
>>>Scotland and Wales would probably use the
>>>opportunity to declare independence. Beats me
>>>what Northern Ireland would do.
>
>
>>Good point you make here, but becoming part of the USA has been
>>mentioned several times in the last disastrous few years of this
>>government, by some very well respected news paper writers in the UK.
>
>
> The trend is in the opposite direction: last night, there was
> a benefit concert here in Berkeley supporting the growing
> Hawaiian independence movement. Also, the South wants to
> secede again, and many folks want historic Aztlan to
> revanch to Mexico.
>
> I don't think any of these is likely to happen soon, however
> if a majority of Hawaiians want to split off I'm not sure
> there'd be much opposition.

So, does that allow us to go under your wing while we fight off the EU
for a few years?

Dave