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DC and Puerto Rico. The 51st state and the 51st state. Wait.
No. Neither DC nor Puerto Rico are the 51st state of these United States. But folks have floated both as potential additions, receiving celebrations from Civil Rights advocates, and boos from graphic design artists.
Puerto Rico got a lot of attention during the arrival and aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017. The handling of the disaster and rebuilding was seen as a national scandal. Generally, Puerto Rico tends to only make the news when there are presidential primaries, or when the issue of statehood comes up.
DC, on the other hand, is in a constant state of national attention, especially with all the media outlets there. The National Cathedral is often shown for funerals of notable political figures, and the monuments appear in an endless number of shows and movies. Outside of the National Mall is also a vibrant city, which is generally ignored in popular imagination.
Speaking of under-appreciated in the popular imagination, Puerto Rico is a gem often overlooked by Americans. Perhaps the reason why Washingtonians and Puerto Ricans are often overlooked? Well, they can’t vote…at least in federal elections anyway. But that could change soon IF
Both become states.
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@iammrbeat Год назад

Which has a better path to statehood? Puerto Rico or D.C.?

@Liamshavingfun Год назад

Neither one because congress can't agree on this issue

@jopiaspieder1184 Год назад

None should go for statehood

@blakekaveny Год назад

I would say Puerto Rico it has open bipartisan support congress needs to stop dragging its feet

@hamzamehmood2484 Год назад

Compare Ontario and Quebec

@Rantasalmi47 Год назад

Puerto rico

@alittlepuertoricanboy1993 Год назад

Fun fact: Puerto Rico was originally named "San Juan Bautista" when Spanish colonization began. The name was eventually changed to "Puerto Rico", since it became a merchant and military port for the Spanish Empire, and the capital was called "San Juan". Also, more than 50% of ALL Puerto Ricans have Taino ancestry of some degree, but we're still overwhelmingly more Spanish or African in ancestry.

@justinarzola4584 Год назад

I call it "Boricua" as that's what the natives called it.

@alittlepuertoricanboy1993 Год назад

@@justinarzola4584 Nah, son. The people are "boricua", the island is "Borinquen".

@justinarzola4584 Год назад

@@alittlepuertoricanboy1993 oh thanks for the fact, I see some Ricans use boricua interchangeably with both the people and island.

@projectc.j.j3310 Год назад

@@justinarzola4584 that’s weird

@Dangic23 Год назад

@@justinarzola4584 Incorrect. Island is referred to as Puerto Rico, Boriquén, Borinquen. The people are referred to as PuertoRicans, Boricuas.

@bradleynoneofyourbizz5341 Год назад

The fact that the 580,000 people in Wyoming get two votes in the US Senate whereas the 700,000 living in DC get zero is just insane.

@ghostsniperable353 Год назад

That's their fault that they moved to a neutral federal district.

@justinus8608 Год назад

Or the 3,000,000 people here in Puerto Rico.

@kevintyson1947 Год назад

@@ghostsniperable353 Yeah its my fault I was born and raised here in DC and have my entire life rooted here

@ghostsniperable353 Год назад

@@kevintyson1947 that sucks

@damianortega470 Год назад

@@ghostsniperable353 We should disenfranchise the people where you live and say, "that sucks"

@sambolino44 Год назад

My trips to Washington DC as a child will never be forgotten. I think all school-age children in America should go there at least once. The National Gallery, the Air and Space Museum, and the rest of the Smithsonian were highlights, along with the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. I have also spent time in Puerto Rico, namely San Juan, Vieques, and Culebra, and I wish I could go back; it's stunningly beautiful.

@jayandree4361 Год назад

Lived in dc my whole life, went to those places as adults 💀

@spektree8448 Год назад

idk the way you describe dc makes it sounds boring ash

@iammrbeat Год назад

I have yet to go to Puerto Rico (it was probably obvious in this video), but I've been to DC three times. I strongly agree with you. Also, I look forward to visiting Puerto Rico someday. It's certainly on my bucket list.

@cody4916 Год назад

DC is ghetto and full of crime, Puerto Rico is a corrupt slum and also full of crime. Neither of them are particularly desirable

@sambolino44 Год назад

@@iammrbeat I think of DC kind of like the hajj: every American should go at least once in their life. My wife (now ex) and I went to Vieques, and then Culebra to get away from the maddening crowds, and only spent a few days in San Juan passing through, but we did visit the fort. The scuba diving was okay (we were from the Pacific Northwest), but the snorkeling was some of the best I've seen anywhere; just fantastic! That was back when I drank, and another highlight was finding a tiny bar in SJ on a side street where people played chess, and there were wandering minstrels.

@joelito0611 Год назад

As a Puerto Rican I have to say I really liked this video. In my opinion DC is going to become a state first because we are really divided in what’s status we prefer. The minimum wage here is $8.50 not $8.20. Also a Fun Fact the Montreal Expos now know as the Washington Nationals played a couple of home games in San Juan and even considered moving here permanently. Anyways great video Mr Beat 💪🏻

@iammrbeat Год назад

TIL you were from Puerto Rico! Thanks for the correction and for sharing all that. 😊

@mauve2791 Год назад

How is this from 4 days ago?

@Nickledumb62 Год назад

@@mauve2791 wth you’re right

@C0rruptionSilence Год назад

probably a supproter

@joelito0611 Год назад

@@mauve2791 I am a Patreon supporter

@yarielrobles9003 Год назад

To add to the information about Puerto Rico's education: although only about a quarter of our population has a bachelor's or higher, it's important to note why that is. Puerto Ricans that have any form of university education and/or proficiency in the English language are dramatically more likely to leave for the mainland, which exacerbates the already crippling diaspora of our population. Because of this, it's very difficult to gather the large support required to improve our education system to be on par with the mainland. In almost any other place on earth, education is an investment in the future, in Puerto Rico, it's an investment in the diaspora that so many hate. Most Puerto Ricans will say they want better education, but anyone without children will at best drag their feet in doing anything about it. This is why Spanish is still so dominant even after being part of the us for over a century, the English speakers leave at disproportionate rates, so the spanish speakers will always be dominant. This has gotten to the point where we are severely lacking in certain medical specialists, sometimes having less doctors of a particular field than we have fingers in a hand. I myself have plans to move to Pennsylvania, and the vast majority of my English speaking friends have expressed interest in either leaving for the mainland or to a new country entirely.

@yarielrobles9003 Год назад

Sidenote: this is also why support for statehood is only about 50%, people who want statehood are more likely to leave to a place where they have the democratic privileges they have been denied here.

@jstevinik3261 Год назад

@@yarielrobles9003 I read that those referendums on statehood tend to have abysmal voter turnout (less than 50%) while a significant amount of pro-statehood people primarily agree with statehood out of pragmatism (thinking the US government is more likely to give statehood than independence).

@optimusprime4443 Год назад

Absolutely right, I have been living in the mainland since 2013 and I haven't looked back ever since, it is true that the statehood support is indeed dropping because too many are leaving to the mainland and that will definitely continue to drop year by year. It is true that the education is also a big part on why many in PR aren't going to University and that's because most of them finish high school and then moves to the states.

@TheWaynester101 Год назад

@@optimusprime4443 half my class went to university in the states

@cgamboa73 Год назад

@@yarielrobles9003 statehood has never had more than 47% approval. never. last two referendums you can say it won, but what was the participation. there's a reason why they leave the ela out of the peblicito. also, we don't speak English because we're Spanish speaking people. there were a couple of attempts to change that, but they fail. one of them they made mandatory all classes in English from elementary to high school. but it has to be reversed because kids stop going to school. you can read it in the book war against all puertorricans, great book by the way.

@teego7875 Год назад

I'm glad you mentioned that we are split on statehood, most americans assume that support for statehood is as popular as it is in DC, when in reality it's a super polarizing issue.

@iammrbeat Год назад

Mos def! It's definitely a myth up here.

@danielquintini Год назад

The polarized issue is beeing a state or remain the same as now. The independent option has not received more then 15% of votes, in fact except the 2020 election every 4 years the PIP has to register again since does not get enough votes.

@Jack-sq6xb Год назад

It really isn't a polarized issue, most people want it to be a state, its just the nay sayers are *very* loud

@teego7875 Год назад

@@Jack-sq6xb you clearly aren't puerto rican, in the first 3 referendums we voted status quo, and the most recent one was 50/50. to any puerto rican in the world you'd sound like an idiot, people legit get into fights over it.

@adoggewokepupper Год назад

@@Jack-sq6xb As a statehood-leaning resident of the island, I have to stop you right there. Perhaps statehood propaganda is somehow successful on local media, but when it comes to these money-draining non-binding referendums (non-binding meaning that Congress isn’t required to and _won’t_ do anything regardless of the poll’s outcome), voter turnout isn’t strong enough to have a concrete consensus. In fact, pro-independence and pro-status quo voters boycott the plebiscites since they’re very certain (and right) that the outcome wouldn’t get to anywhere, especially when it’s politically biased thanks to the pro-statehood party. That’s why you don’t see much voter support for independence or current status quo (a status I think is a mythical hot mess) in these kinds of referendums, and that’s how the 2017 referendum had an insane 97% vote for statehood, having more or less 1/5 of registered voters participating in it. 23% if I’m not wrong.

@angel_epv Год назад

Puerto Rico is a gem indeed 😊 Thank you for (yet another) amazing, comprehensive, and soundly researched video; and thank you for keeping Puerto Rico among your channel's topics. I feel appreciated and seen.

@iammrbeat Год назад

I appreciate the kind words and your support!

@playtpusthief1322 Год назад

@@iammrbeat Can u give me 1000000$ pls MrBeast

@playtpusthief1322 Год назад

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@mr_yeetsyeet8281 Год назад

@@playtpusthief1322 is he mrbeast

@CaribbeanHistory Год назад

Hello Mr. Beat, fellow historian and history teacher from PR here: A few notes: The origin of Puerto Rico is from Juan Ponce de León, our first governor and referred to just the capital city as Ciudad de Puerto Rico because Columbus had named the entire island San Juan. They switched the names in the early 19th century. 60% of people here can trace their ancestors to the taino $8.50 is the minimum If you work in certain agencies and work groups, you do have to pay federal taxes Puerto Rico’s traffic is horrible especially on routes 30, 22, 52 and 26 (which all coincidently are in the metro area). Once a 45 min drive from work to home took me 3hr 30min one time If you ever visit the island, I can gladly give you a tour, especially in the Old San Juan area

@jayandree4361 Год назад

Boy give me that tour, I’m tryna hit PR

@Angiie884 Год назад

Hello, I am also a Puerto Rican, I wonder where you got the 60% Taino number. I do know we inherited some origin from them but I thought we had a far higher amount of Spanish blood (plus the African roots from the slave era)

@iammrbeat Год назад

Thank you so freaking much. I might take you up on that offer one day. :)

@CaribbeanHistory Год назад

@@Angiie884 I read about it for the first time in a newspaper article about 15 years ago then I saw It again more recently but I cannot remember where. If I find it I will gladly share. What you Say is true, Spanish ancestry is way higher

@lmartinez3633 Год назад

That is a misconception that we do not pay federal taxes…

@pikespice Год назад

When you mentioned it would take 3 hours to drive across Puerto Rico, I immediately went "DC would be about the same".

@roserahaman3418 Год назад

Are you referring to the traffic?

@itzawildgamer4119 Год назад

You should compare Puerto Rico and Hawaii that would be very interesting

@VMan29397 9 месяцев назад

Hawaii is what will happens if Puerto Rico becomes a state

@thatrandomnoob8611 Год назад

My Great Grandma was born in Puerto Rico on March 2, 1917, the day the residents gained citizenship. She is likely one of the first babies born being given citizenship on birth. I have much pride in my Puerto Rican Heritage and have 1% of native Puerto Rican in my blood. I often go back and forth on statehood but due to the economy being so linked to the mainland that statehood would benefit the island

@stikupartist3698 Год назад

Wow that's low. I have 19% indigenous Puerto rican dna. Are you mostly caucasian?

@oTroubles Год назад

@@stikupartist3698 Yeah 1% is insanely low, this persons grandma must’ve only been in PR for an extremely short time from Spain or something

@stikupartist3698 Год назад

@Jose Ortiz cool. Mines says I'm 41% European and 40% African with the remaining amount indigenous.

@kelvinhernandez1976 11 месяцев назад

Statehood would not benefit the island maybe for economics yes but it would destroy us in the process because we don’t have the qualifications to become a state especially our culture is in danger

@VMan29397 10 месяцев назад

no to statehood. Borinquen llama a sus hijos a la libertad - Ramón Emeterio Betances

@SiVlog1989 Год назад

I saw a Vox video from 2020 about DC residents' desire for statehood. In it, they mentioned the taxation situation in the District and showed that the licence plates of the cars in the District dust off the old rallying cry "No taxation without representation," Although the areas of the District that aren't Federal Buildings (the ~66 Square Miles surrounding the Federal Buildings and the areas owned by the Federal government) are unlikely to become a state on their own, much like Puerto Rico, the video does talk about some of the reasons why they want statehood. For example, they talk about how the Federal government overrules the local government of DC with regards to what they want to do (while DC normally gets treated like a state in many matters, like Electoral College votes etc, when Congress was passing relief packages for States during the height of the first stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, DC received the equivalent to that of a US territory, less than half that of a state and even the DC Mayor was vocally less than impressed with this). Another raw spot for them was how the National Guard cleared the streets before Donald Trump posed for a photo with a Bible in front of the Lafayette Church, such action would be illegal in every state, but not DC

@slickrick876 Год назад

Simple solution is give residential DC to Maryland and keep downtown as the nation's capital.

@SayuriSRC Год назад

Dang, what a great comparison video! As a Puerto Rican and former decade-plus long resident of DC, this made me so happy to see! It's my personal hope that DC especially will become a state one day.

@iammrbeat Год назад

Holy crap. I guess I made this video for you. :)

@myownboss4450 Год назад

Nice. I’m from DC and live in PR. Accurate video for the most part. I would personally like neither one of them to become a state

@tenzy6807 Год назад

From a DC native for those interested: We have our own culture. We have local music, food, sports teams, festivals, and all manner of local attractions aside from the national mall. We are a distinct entity from both Virginia and Maryland. In fact, we have something of a rivalry with the two states and none of the three would take kindly with being lumped together. Also, the whole "federal district should be seperate stuff" doesn't work. A good chunk of DC residents either aren't federal employees or work more on the advocacy and nonprofit side of things. Lots of the important federal people live in Virginia's suburbs and commute in. We pay taxes (more federal taxes per capita than any state and more federal taxes overall than 21 states), have our own local laws and government, and would really just like to have the rights we should in a democratic country. It's quite scary knowing your whole government can be overthrown if feds we can't vote for want to. The new boarders required to seperate the actual federal district within DC from the proposed state (residential neighborhoods) has been drawn out. The only reason we're still not a state is because we'd vote super democratic and half the country isn't ok with that. Also, we'd be the only majority black state which I think is pretty sweet! There are 700,000 people living in DC without equal rights, this isn't a political debate but an ethics one.

@WickedMapping Год назад

That was kind of the deal for living in DC all the way back to when it was built. You won't be represented as a state because you are home to the federal government, and being equal to other states would cause a severe imbalance of power. Plus, you have already gotten the concession of having electoral votes.

@damianortega470 Год назад

@@WickedMapping What imbalance of power? We're taxed without representation. You know, the thing that the American Revolution evangelized?

@WickedMapping Год назад

@@damianortega470 You have 3 electoral votes. You have representation.

@damianortega470 Год назад

@@WickedMapping The electoral votes that decide the Presidency don't pass laws raising revenue through taxes. Only the House of Representatives can do so. And last time I checked, DC doesn't have a voting member in Congress...

@WickedMapping Год назад

@@damianortega470 You're also the home of the federal government. Having the area with the government have the same control of a state is a slippery slope.

@shadyxv8165 Год назад

Didn’t know other Puerto Ricans watched MrBeat,was pleasantly surprised! Hi from Bayamon :)

@Bizcachita Год назад

Hi from Gurabo

@evielhernandez8160 Год назад

Thanks for talking about Puerto Rico. A clarification, we only have the American citizenship. Puerto Rican citizenship doesn’t really exist for practical purposes, it is rather a certification issued by the Puerto Rico Department of State to whoever requests it. That identifies the person as coming from and residing in Puerto Rico. But most of us only have american citizenship. For everything else, excellent video Mr. Beat. Greetings from Puerto Rico.

@FredoRockwell Год назад

Personally, I'm in favour of both DC and PR getting statehood if they want it. I can't honestly think of a valid reason to deny it. Sure, it would upset the balance of power in the Senate, but deciding who gets to be a state based on trying to keep the Senate balanced seems like a totally cynical way to do politics. Great video!

@EnigmaticLucas Год назад

I feel like Puerto Rico would be purple if it were a state. The GOP could probably win things there by appealing to Hispanic social conservatism.

@johanrunfeldt7174 Год назад

"Deciding who gets to be a state based on trying to keep Senate balanced." Where did I hear that before?

@SomasAcademy Год назад

I reckon DC and all the inhabited territories should have statehood - PR, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. That or independence - no taxation without representation after all, doesn't seem right for them to be parts of the country without being equal parts of it!

@trey5747 Год назад

@@SomasAcademy right

@nuckyduk15 Год назад

@@SomasAcademy You do realize they don't pay FICA or Federal Income tax right?

@sabirsal Год назад

Great video. Another interesting tidbit about Puerto Rico is that the Roanoke and Jamestown expeditions stopped there before reaching the mainland. I don’t remember how long they were on the island but I believe it was around 10-14 days each.

@bagelfrrr Год назад

Yo Mr Beat can you make the history of baseball teams? Thatd be an interesting video.

@SeanA099 Год назад

I think Puerto Rico has a much better chance of becoming a state. It has a large territory and large population. It is also very unique, this justifies itself much more than DC, which could honestly be reverted to Maryland because of how integrated it is with the area. Also, Puerto Rico could be seen as a less partisan addition to congress, since neither of the major parties in PR fully align with Democrats or Republicans. It could be interesting to see

@justinarzola4584 Год назад

I agree, DC would be a democrat controlled state while Puerto Rico would be more neutral\partisan which both parts could accept.

@quinepstein4729 Год назад

Additionally, DC was cut out of Maryland and Virginia specifically because the founding fathers didn’t want the capital to be in a state, since they believed it would then start to favor that state more and breed corruption.

@Dangic23 Год назад

Partisanship should never be a measure when considering extending full citizenship rights to US citizens

@csharp3884 Год назад

@@Dangic23 DC resident largely choose to live in an area where they don’t have any representatives in Congress. It doesn’t take much to choose to live 45 minutes in another direction if they really cared about voting. On the other hand, Puerto Rico is culturally independent and it would be much more challenging for a Puerto Rican to live in an area with federal representatives since they would need to move hundred of miles off an island. I’d say yes to PR, no to DC. I really have no sympathy for DC residents lmao

@Dangic23 Год назад

@@csharp3884 Agree. DC folks knew what they were getting into. Folks in Puerto Rico have never had a say on anything that has been implemented to them by the USA. Under Spain, Puerto Rico had more representation in Madrid than what they’ve had under US rule.

@Alex_FRD Год назад

Small correction, Puerto Rican citizenship mentioned in 11:41 is state residency, like the kind you'd get if you were a Floridian, Texan, New Yorker, etc. There was, however, a case of a secessionist who did surrender his American citizenship and identified as a citizen of Puerto Rico.

@geobori Год назад

Puerto Rico does indeed have its own citizenship although we have no passport, only a certificate which can be requested at Puerto Rico's Department of State offices in San Juan. It is recognized by Spain and can be used to expidite the process to Spanish citizenship should one choose to live there. Most other LatAm countries also enjoy this feature.

@olekstormantovski8096 Год назад

Another great addition to the series. Here goes another attempt to get you to do Edmonton vs Calgary.

@alejlucci5365 Год назад

Hello Mr. Beat! I love your content and was very excited to see my country discussed in this video. Keep up the good work as always!

@snowballeffect7812 Год назад

Yo, Mr. Beat is actually way more ripped than I initially realized..

@Mysil-bergsprekken Год назад

Hi mrbeat! Really love your content, keep up the good work! On second hand, it would be great if you could make a video informing about Moore v. Harper, and the dangers it bears to democracy. Again, keep up the good work!

@iammrbeat Год назад

I will be watching that case very closely. 🧐

@217ken Год назад

How close are you to deciding who you're going to compare Michigan to or even comparing Upper and Lower Peninsulas?

@revinhatol Год назад

FUN FACT: Some of the earliest Spanish settlers have either whole of mixed Amazigh (Berber) ancestry from the Canary Islands.

@valmid5069 Год назад

*Great video analysis Mr. Beat!*

@PremierCCGuyMMXVI Год назад

I personally think we should make both states. As well as giving other over seas territories some form of representation. But if we make PR a state, I think the US Virgin Islands should join up with it

@500mph7 Год назад

We can't make DC a state since it was written that no state can rule over all the others. That's entirely the whole point we created dc so we could make it a federal district instead of a state.

@radarbug5390 Год назад

@Nicholas Time 🤣🤣The USA is not an empire; 1 we are not all under one ruler we vote for our president , our president doesn’t rule for life, our president isn’t called an emperor and in an empire has all its rules made by the emperor while our laws are made by 3 branches and states can also make their own laws

@johndoe-fq7ez Год назад

Why are you an imperialist

@teego7875 Год назад

I disagree with this, not just cus im pro-independent, but also even if we were a state, people in the us virgin islands would most likely not want to join us because of our completely different national identity.

@radarbug5390 Год назад

@@teego7875 but they would get more funding better trade and so much more

@gregbits6109 Год назад

I have been watching your channel like a Netflix show, and befire I even get halfway thru- another great season! 😂

@marcello7781 Год назад

When I was younger I used to think Puerto Rico was an independent country and oftenly I would confuse its flag with the Cuban one.

@justinarzola4584 Год назад

I confuse the panama flag with the Cuba flag sometimes.

@marcello7781 Год назад

@@justinarzola4584 same, but in my case I used to confuse Panamanian flag with the Dominican one.

@Dangic23 Год назад

Still a Colony. In fact, the oldest colony in the World. 1493-Present.

@poorwotan Год назад

The flags are essentially the same in design. An easy way to remember which one is which is that the star on the Cuban one is on the red field (like red communism) while Puerto Rico's is on the blue field.

@familyandfriends3519 Год назад

@@Dangic23 Spanish colony not American

@WalrusMilk Год назад

Love the vids Mr Beet. Slight Spanish note: The “í” makes kinda like an “Ee” noise, so “Taíno” is pronounced more like “Thah-Ee-noh” than “Tay-Noe” Edit: “thah” because the Spanish T is somewhere in between English’s soft and hard Ts, kind of like the soft D noise

@zanytime Год назад

Both pronunciations are correct according to various dictionaries.

@ElJosher Год назад

He is speaking english, no need for correction. He can pronounce a word the way it makes sense in english. The reason english is so shit and inconsistent is precisely because speakers are trying to pronounce “correctly” instead of actually adapting words to the language.

@bui3415 Год назад

@@ElJosher That's not even correct in English. It's saying Taiwan as Tay-wan

@jrodriguez1207 Год назад

Puerto Rico does have their own professional sport teams like the Superior Basketball National (Baloncesto Superior Nacional) and the Baseball League (Liga de Béisbol Profesional - Roberto Clemente). Boxing, swimming, volleyball, tennis, are some other sports that are also famous in the island.

@kobblestone Год назад

Mr Beat should do a video on his 10 favourite founding fathers or ranking every founding father!

@johnshafer7214 Год назад

Great video Mr Beat. Getting ready for the school year.

@liam-man7265 Год назад

I think it would have made much more sense to compare Puerto Rico with the U.S. Virgin Islands because the territories are both external from the 48 contiguous states and are much more geographically close to each other, just my opinion.

@reucat24 Год назад

Yes, it is absurd to compare Puerto Rico with the capital of the United States. Puerto Rico has more in common with Venezuela than with Washington D.C

@brodymanandts Год назад

Robert e Lees father was one of the main voices in removing Arlington county from dc. He said that a people can not be American if they could not vote. Ironically he didn’t care about the part of dc that would be left behind not voting.

@blayzbrooks3786 Год назад

You are wrong it wasn't about voting it was about slavery. DC was against slavery and emancipated slaves before the rest of the nation on April 16, 1862 . Arlington wanted to keep slavery anticipated DC would abolish slavery voted to go back Virginia. Stop trying to rewrite history

@brodymanandts Год назад

@@blayzbrooks3786 Of course it was about slavery. Also Alexandria retroceded in 1847, 15 years before dc's emancipation. I was stating the fact that Robert E Lees father was the principle architect of Arlington's retrocession. This was also one (of the many) reasons why Maryland did not separate from the union (despite being a slave state).

@mapk1516 Год назад

Another excellent video Mr Beat, always love these comparison videos. What do you think about moving the capital to somewhere more in the centre of the continental United States, such as Kansas City?

@blakekaveny Год назад

The Kansas City would be way to powerful. The capital was never meant to be part of state so if it moved that city would no longer be allowed to be apart of that state

@mapk1516 Год назад

@@blakekaveny I guess that's the political aspect of it but I'm thinking of the economic benefit of moving the capital there. Lot of government jobs would be available there and the spillover effect it will have on the Ozarks and the Midwest would help revitalize those regions imo.

@notsoaveragejoe7275 Год назад

Can you do a video about similarities and differences of Vietnam and Cambodia?

@joel12383 Год назад

As a Puerto Rican. The issue of statehood is just too polarizing. Dear I say as bad a Democrats Vs Republicans. Some Ricans are dieheart supporters sometimes just by birth, family passed ideology on the issue. Nowadays the issue is growing even more divisive as new generations look for a 3rd option, like independence. Definitely a generational divide too. I say, the ppl of Puerto Rico have to get SOME form of actual representation in congress while the issue is resolved. Almost all Puerto Ricans can agree the current status is just not sustainable. I encourage anyone into politics to deep dive Puerto Rican politics, super interesting.

@JS-nu9hd Год назад

Statehood still has a plurality among young generations in PR.

@danic_c Год назад

I definitely agree. Whether Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. state or an independent nation, either option is better than the current status as a territory, where they basically have no say over their own governance.

@reucat24 Год назад

there is a 4th option that is growing: Reunification with Spain

@kelvinhernandez1976 11 месяцев назад

@@JS-nu9hdno statehood is among very old Puerto Ricans a lot of younger Puerto Ricans want independence and some old ones too

@VMan29397 9 месяцев назад

@@JS-nu9hd No it isn't. If you're going by the referendums those things suffer from p*** poor turnout so they're not an accurate representation of the island's opinions

@newflyer2198 Год назад

Here are a few compared episode ideas: - Milwaukee and Minneapolis - Colombia and Brazil - Thailand and the Philippines - Poland and Belarus - Zambia and Mozambique

@sterlingherrera1792 Год назад

Why the Thailand and Philippines comparison specifically, out of curiosity? In any case, what is also interesting is contrasting Philippines from other former Spanish colonies. This is because unlike those other places, the Philippines still speaks its indigenous languages rather than Spanish (Spanish was never a widely spoken language there) and the people themselves have essentially no genetic admixture from Spain (according to the study of Larena et al 2021, only ~1% of Filipinos have the genetic signal from Europe). This is because rather than settler colonialism happening in the Philippines, the Spanish instead limited themselves to certain areas, such as Intramuros in Manila, and largely segregated themselves from the indigenous people in terms of social relations. The prevalence of Spanish surnames in the country come from two major ways: 1. religious conversion (taking a Christian name) and 2. Claveria's Decree of 1849, which forced Filipinos to adopt surnames for administrative reasons (traditionally, prior to colonialism, Filipinos did not have surnames). I think culturally, a lot ties Thailand to the Philippines, the Philippines being kind of a prototypical maritime SE Asian country, and Thailand being a protoypical mainland SE Asian country. Both have a strong and ancient history of influence from India, even down to traditional writing systems (which Thailand still uses, but in the Philippines as in Indonesia, are no longer in widespread use). Along with that, there of course is Buddhist influence in both countries, though in the Philippines the Hindu and Muslim influences are even larger (then of course Christianity from Spain and the US), Islam coming most likely via trade with what later became Indonesia, and Hinduism and Buddhism coming directly from relations with India. This topic is actually so huge haha

@MrChupacabradude Год назад

Hey Mr.Beat I want to point put we do have some minor profesional basketball teams and baseball teams. The basketball league is called BSN (Baloncesto Superior Nacional) which translates to National Superior Basketball and as of tomorow we are actually in the finals of the season.

@PakBallandSami Год назад

once again a great compression video mr.beat

@SomasAcademy Год назад

I like how when Mr. Beat lifts the glass of Athletic Greens to take a sip it immediately cuts so we can't see his reaction to tasting it.

@seanworle Год назад

I think it would make sense for Puerto Rico to become a state, though that should only happen if a majority of the people living there want that. D.C. on the other hand doesn't really make so much sense as a state. Rather, I think it might make sense to re-negotiate the borders, and maybe even reduce D.C. down to something like just the area surrounding the National Mall, as well as the area from the mall over to Lafayette Square to include the White House. Then the rest of what was D.C. could just be absorbed into Virginia or Maryland (or some to each).

@charliegantt3744 Год назад

The problem with figuring out who’s in support is the fact that most of the people who don’t support statehood don’t get to have a say in the polls. Most of the time the polls are done overnight in PNP hotbeds in the city and rural areas of PR don’t get to really voice their opinions. Also it’s likely that statehood would only speed up the already scary gentrification process and price PR natives off the island.

@andrejs4984 Год назад

I doubt people in DC want to be reabsorbed into nearby states, I think it can reasonably be its own state; sort of a city state, and it wouldn’t be bad idea to create a city state out of NYC. Germany has city states in its federation, so it is not sth unprecedented. Also 53 stars are easy to put on a flag in a similar aesthetically pleasing way the current flag has

@silvanvanderhorst7366 Год назад

@@andrejs4984 I've heard similar plans about Chicago or LA becoming their own states. Though I think the people living in those cities have no problem being part of New York State, Illinois and California. However, I could imagine that conservatives in NY and IL might prefer those big cities to be out of their state. Because making those three cities states would have huge political implications. First of all, just like DC, those states would become Democratic strongholds with Democrats winning every federal election in those state. Democrats would get 6 free new seats in the Senate that would never change parties. But also for the states those cities left there will be huge implications. Now, California is so liberal that I think it will remain a strong Democratic state, even without LA in it. But New York and Illinois are for a large part rural and are largely pulled to the left by their massive liberal cities, NYC and Chicago. WIth those cities gone, both states could now become competitive in federal elections. However, even with IL and NY becoming more competitive, it would be hard for Republicans to overcome the advantage the Democrats will have with their 6 strong Democratic Senate seats. In the House, very little would change. The districts that cover these cities and where those cities' representatives come from will largely remain the same and will continue to be a part of those city states. Though redistricting will probably be necessary in some cases. Especially with Illinois' districts that reach from Chicago city deep into the state's rural areas. Also, about the beginning of your comment. Indeed, most DC citizens want full statehood. They don't want to become a part of Maryland, but also more importantly: the government of Maryland has already made it clear that it doesn't want DC to become part of their state.

@andrejs4984 Год назад

@@silvanvanderhorst7366 their situation might not be as problematic as DC or PR, but as far as NY goes, I think a proposal to split the state of New York is reasonable. If you started from the scratch and redrew administrative boundaries, no sane cartographer would suggest New York in the shape it is today.

@CortexNewsService Год назад

@@silvanvanderhorst7366 there's still talk of making Chicago a state, mostly from conservative people outside it. And for the reasons you said. But it gets really complicated at ground level. The state's population can be grouped into Chicago, the suburbs and downstate (everything else). Most suggestions to break of Chicago also include Cook County. That's five million people right there. Downstate, which is about 90 percent of the land area, is 3 million. The wild card are the collar counties with 4 million. In statewide elections, the collars and suburban Cook decide elections. They outweigh both the city and downstate. And they generate most of the economic activity. But only because they're so close to Chicago and its status of a port of entry. Finally, the suburbs get back 80 cents of every dollar they send to the state government back. Chicago gets about a dollar. Downstate gets 1.75. I have yet to see any proposal that takes the suburbs into account. If they follow Chicago out to form a new state, what's left of Illinois becomes one of the poorest states. If they stay with Illinois, they and their increasingly liberal voters will still out weigh the rest of the state, leaving the politics the same. And as a liberal downstate, I need that counter balance of Chicago to have any kind of voice... even if Chicago does forget liberals are down here too.

@Moonlight_Productions Год назад

I enjoyed working with you Matt :)

@havehope646 Год назад

Great wonderful video as always

@samwill7259 Год назад

Something they have in common is they should have both becomes states long before any of us were born. It's absurd that people from both of these places have to follow a government they don't get to a say in and I DEFY anyone to justify the status of either location in good faith

@teego7875 Год назад

With you say this with a complete disregard of what we wanted historically, only very recently have the majority voted for statehood, all of the older referendums were wins for status-quo, if anything we should be independent as back in the 30s all the political parties here supported it.

@WickedMapping Год назад

DC was intended as a plot of land not hostage to a state. Philadelphia and a few other cities used to be our capital and it came at the issue of a state having influence over the government by hosting it. That's why DC is separate and is not a state. The only reason the Democrats want it as a state is because they would gain two permanent senators and a house member as well as influence over the government by controlling its HQ. Also, DC already has 3 electoral votes. To say it has no say in the government is false. DC is filling the role is always has and always should; a seperate entity intended for use by the government. It was the people who originally lived there's choice to live in an area they knew they wouldn't gain all the rights of a state. To move there and demand the entire entity be upended is absurd. I rest my case.

@reucat24 Год назад

Puerto Rico's best option is to Reunify with Spain

@juanesoto1392 Год назад

Watching videos like this makes me wish one day I’ll see one about Venezuela. I know it’s not necessarily usa history but the similarities in culture are quite interesting specially with so many Venezuelans living here now. I love ur videos please think about it!!

@yobwoc1000 Год назад

Mr. Beat, I teach aquatic science at a high school. If possible canyou compare two states with known aquatic biomes or two coastal states? Thanks for your comparisojn videos. Last, curious how you would rank Kansas City bbq against Texas bbq.

@leandrofranca5943 Год назад

We can make suggestion on VS? Becuase i think it's your best content

@bobbyferg9173 Год назад

Another difference between the two is that, in terms of percentage, DC has one of the fastest growing populations in the US while Puerto Rico has one of the fastest declining populations in the US, if not on a more worldwide scale. Puerto Rico's declining population is in large part due to immigration to the mainland US as better opportunities in the US while also being US citizens makes it an ideal choice for many Puerto Ricans. Having these wealthy and more highly educated individuals leave further worsens conditions for remaining Puerto Ricans and gives more incentive to leave, which creates a nasty cycle that is only made worse by natural disasters. If you have been there in recent times, then you can probably notice a certain barren feeling to many areas in the island as if people who should have been there disappeared

@elliot04877 Год назад

Puerto rico also has the lowest birth rate not only in the US but in the whole American continent both North and South. That plays a larger role than emigration nowdays tbh.

@ElJosher Год назад

Brain drain is always a loop. This is why I hate when educated people leave their country, but it is hard to fault them when they have almost no choice but to leave. I think a lot of people don’t realize how damaging leaving one’s country is, especially if it the person is young. But i guess that is a problem for the people to resolve as well as the government. It would be great if more young people immigrated to PR.

@Bizcachita Год назад

"Barren" lmao have you not been stuck in traffic or been to Plaza 🤣 i think the barren is due to other things, like the bad economy and car culture

@kelvinhernandez1976 11 месяцев назад

Yeah thanks to the USA for Puerto Rico population declining because USA use women in pr where they couldn’t get pregnant or give birth at all that why otherwise our population would grow faster then dc

@chrissmarie455 5 месяцев назад

@@elliot04877it’s also important to note that in our culture is very common and pushed on us to only have few kids, having more than 2 kids in PR is rare and considered a big family. Most only have 1 or 2 and in this economy it makes sense

@benplayzgames4368 Год назад

I thought dc was gonna become a state last year the house voted and passed it but didn’t go to the senate yet for some reason either way I would love to see a 51st state like dc Guam or purto Rico I asked my grandpa does he remember when Alaska and Hawaii became stated he said yes he still remember Eisenhower signing it into law thanks mrbeat also can you do a video of every president home state and birth state

@mikelyman3297 Год назад

Mr. Beat, are you working out? Looking pumped in this video!

@TheManny717 Год назад

Shoutout to the kids who made their cameo appearances during their dad’s ad presentation!

@evanarroyo1384 Год назад

This is the first time I as a Puerto Rican has ever gotten any non-negative representation in a very good while

@scoobydoobers23 Год назад

They aren't super connected culturally but I think of PR becomes a state, the US Virgin Islands should come with them. Give them local autonomy but make them part of the *state" of Puerto Rico. All Americans should have the rights of Americans.

@walkergreen9768 Год назад

What if we added them with Guam and northern marina islands to create a US Overseas Territory Representative

@nahueldiaz7572 Год назад

or why not just give them statehood seperately?

@scoobydoobers23 Год назад

@@nahueldiaz7572 It wouldn't make sense to give a state of 100,000 people two senators and a Congressional Rep. Too much power for 100k people. And the islands are pretty damn close so it would make sense administratively.

@nahueldiaz7572 Год назад

@@scoobydoobers23 I mean its been done before, Nevada was a state with less than 100,000 people before 1940, and it had 2 senators

@scoobydoobers23 Год назад

@@nahueldiaz7572 It became a state in 1864, most western states had small populations then. I'm not hugely invested in this topic, I just think there would be a lot of resistance to the US Virgin Islands becoming their own state with their size/population/economy.

@jodiecarlson6955 Год назад

Mr. Beat, did you notice your little photo bomber in the background?? At 0:50

@papajohn3599 Год назад

Mr. Beat, you should do a video on how you make your videos. I know it's only PowerPoint but I think it would be very interesting.

@darellarocho5729 Год назад

Before I even watch the video, just wanted to say that I love watching your videos and I'm Puerto Rican! YO SOY BORICUA, PA' QUE TU LO SEPA! Haha, love your videos man. And hopefully PR gets to be the 51st State, we've voted for it too many times, man. Edit: Watched the video! Loved it! And yes, hopefully D.C. gets Statehood as well!

@pauldudley8837 Год назад

Excellent video and really in-depth comparisons. I liked it a lot. But I couldn't help but think in the back of my mind how the US Congress is guilty of the financial condition of Puerto Rico today. Too much to go into but worthwhile researching.

@EliF-ge5bu Год назад

You mean Puerto Rico didn't borrow mindlessly and plundered their own treasury?

@Dangic23 Год назад

Colonialism is always a disadvantageous status to the Colony, hence 1776. Puerto Rico is currently utilized as a Tax Heaven for corporations, exactly like the Cayman Islands is used by the UK.

@palyo0 Год назад

@@EliF-ge5bu You really think the US government didn't know about this? They let the corrupt government borrow knowing the consequences. Both the US and PR are guilty of Puerto Rico finances.

@EliF-ge5bu Год назад

@@palyo0 the Federal government will not and cannot tell the government of Puerto Rico not to borrow excessively, just like it cannot tell any of the states how to manage their own finances. Instead of blaming the federal government for the corruption of the government of Puerto Rico which is entrenched in every level, why don’t you own up to it? Besides are you telling us that Puerto Rican’s can’t manage to have a decent government without the guidance of the Federal government?

@palyo0 Год назад

@@EliF-ge5bu The federal government can do whatever they please with its territories thats the difference between a state and a colony.

@-._.-._--._.-._--._.-._--._.-. Год назад

Mr.Beat can you make an episode and compare usa and canada would be interesting topic haha

@jouaienttoi Год назад

Mr. Beat I think a video on the different voting methods in a democracy (or elective dictatorship/monarchy) would be useful to have. Especially since voting alternatives to Winner-Takes-All can allow for disruption of the two-party system.

@iammrbeat Год назад

Great suggestion!

@Teag_Brohman15 Год назад

both would make amazing states also Guam and American Samoa

@VMan29397 9 месяцев назад

No boriquen calls its children to freedom

@g_men2121 Год назад

Im up for both becoming states. Hopefully I see the day one of these fine places join in the statehood club. We really need new members

@andyjay729 Год назад

That or retrocession of the non-federal government areas of DC to Maryland.

@TrashMammal2002 Год назад

@@andyjay729 the People of DC wouldn't like that

@WickedMapping Год назад

@@TrashMammal2002 Why? Maryland is a solid Democrat state as well. Or is this just about getting two more free Democratic senators?

@TrashMammal2002 Год назад

@@WickedMapping It wouldn't be democratic for the people of DC that they would be thrown to Maryland, they've been living in DC for all their lives, if they want statehood, then so be it, No one complained when a state admitted to the Union, And the reason why Dakota was split was to have more Republican Senators in the Senate

@WickedMapping Год назад

@@TrashMammal2002 DC was intended as a Federal District. The land of the Dakotas was intended as states. Also, where is your evidence that Dakota was split to gain more Republican Senators? This happened all the way back in the 1800s.

@syndialefebre1744 Год назад

Great video. Love the content.

@TWOnly666 Год назад

Do you have one of these for Utah and Idaho?

@Alt-yj7nq Год назад

No statehood for Puerto Rico comparing DC to Puerto Rico is just silly but still understand why you made this video though statehood for Puerto Rico is just political theater idk why people still think statehood has any chance of happening DC statehood is much more realistic than PR and even than we are so different from the rest of the US we should just be our own country or free association.

@blakekaveny Год назад

But what if they want statehood

@reucat24 Год назад

Reunification of Puerto Rico with Spain, that is the best option

@wandanieves3338 Год назад

Great video! Verify the part of the puertorican citizenship since all citizenship we have had is american. We call ourselves puertoricans but I do not believe there is a puertorican citizenship per se. Also, fun fact is that the ONLY rain forest of the USA is located in Puerto Rico. It's know as "El Yunque".

@poorwotan Год назад

Yup, there is a PR citizenship document even (since 2007). The local State Department issues those but, of course, it's just cosmetic as there is no international recognition for that...

@s0me0ne123 Год назад

Nice vid man keep it up

@Dr.Schlitz Год назад

I’ve lived in DC for 25 years. For people who’ve never lived here - it’s hard for you to understand how offensive the status quo is. We pay federal income taxes but have no representation in Congress. It is literally “taxation without representation.” How would you like it if some Congressman from a very far away part of the country could rewrite your LOCAL laws? You wouldn’t. For example, your state probably taxes income earned in your state by nonresidents. This makes sense - those people are driving on your roads, using your infrastructure, and so on. Well, Congress prohibits DC from taxing income earned in DC by nonresidents. They only do this in DC - nowhere else. This results in higher income taxes for DC residents. DC should be a state simply as a matter of justice. Every American citizen should have equal rights and you shouldn’t have to move from your home to get equal treatment. Depriving DC citizens of equal treatment for political reasons is unfair and un-American, especially when you consider that the sparsely populated Dakota Territories were made into 2 states instead of 1 as a political power play. The current statehood proposal would retain the federal district, but shrink it to the core area from the Supreme Court to the White House. The remainder would become a state. So the federal government would remain in a separate district, not in a state. And no, we don’t want to be part of Maryland. DC has been separate from MD longer than West Virginia has been separate from Virginia and longer than most states have existed as states.

@loworochi Год назад

I think Puerto Rico should either be a state or an independent country. I think Washington DC should be the way it is just have representation in both houses/ be allowed to vote in federal elections

@oniran Год назад

Great video! I’ve been to both places and love Puerto Rico! I think both should be made into states regardless of political leanings and its long overdue. Both have contributed so much to this country and the people there should not be treated as second class citizens. They have served in our military and contributed much to our economy and rich history. To think that anyone would want to prevent US citizens from both places from having the same representation as states with lesser populations (2 in DC's case and 20 in Puerto Rico's) seems crazy! I know Puerto Rico may be split on statehood but I believe if the majority want it then that’s how it should be as that’s what happens in a democracy and they could really benefit financially from it as well. Also, I’m wondering what the true motive is for arguments that DC should be added back to Maryland when most other states were formed from a larger state/territory throughout US history including much earlier than 1776. With that logic there should be way less states to begin with.

@VMan29397 9 месяцев назад

No statehood for puerto rico independence only

@javierrivera8545 Год назад

Correction! "Puerto Rico's" population is puertorican, we are a people with a nationality, which is puertorican, though politically we're not recognized as a nation, we are. We are Latino, in Latin America we're recognized as a people with a country & trough out most of the world. We're one of the most that have contributed greatly to Latin America's culture, even though we're the smallest in size of all Spanish countries. In Latin America when countries are announced, you have to mention Puerto Rico. We have a national flag that is worldwide recognized & has represented PR in diverse international events, & a national anthem with a constitution, the only thing we don't have is sovereignty(powerful economic & political interests have prevented it). Only hard-core pro statehood politicians in PR & powerful forces that have undermined us as a people have polarized this issue & don't recognize it, but even US politicians with a secret loud voice acknowledge this.

@teego7875 Год назад

You should do a comparison with San Juan and Santo Domingo.