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  • edited November 2012
    It will be fun to see what type of shit they come up with to justify blocking Puerto Rico's statehood to their constituency.
    I expect it will be pretty simple stuff along the lines of "they just want to get more handouts from the government!"

    Case in point:
    https://twitter.com/search?q=puerto rico welfare
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  • I always write in Australian so they become aware of the struggles our people face.
  • What are the pros and cons of statehood?
  • My paternal grandmother is 100% Colombian; Dad lived in Bogota for several years as a kid before he naturalized. Viva La Raza, etc.
    Okay, that makes sense, at least for why you self-identify as Hispanic.

    Hmm, apparently I'd be considered Hispanic in Florida too...

  • What are the pros and cons of statehood?
    Pro: You have representation in Congress.
    Con: Umm, you have representation in Congress?
  • My paternal grandmother is 100% Colombian; Dad lived in Bogota for several years as a kid before he naturalized. Viva La Raza, etc.
    Okay, that makes sense, at least for why you self-identify as Hispanic.

    Hmm, apparently I'd be considered Hispanic in Florida too...

    Yeah. Grandfather is 100% Spanish, and those cultural lines run really deep for most people in my family.

    I'm also quite white in terms of pigmentation, which has caused me NO end of issues explaining my ethnicity to nosy/ignorant people.
  • Latino/Hispanic generally refers to those of Central/South American ancestry.
    I believe Latino refers to Central/South American ancestry and Hispanic refers to European Spanish. So, either way, both of those typically Spanish-speaking cultures are lumped together in the "Latino/Hispanic" identifier.
  • edited November 2012
    What are the pros and cons of statehood?
    For Puerto Rico, roughly 5 Representatives, 2 Senators, and 7 Electoral College votes, because its population is roughly that of Connecticut.

    More problematically, other states would (under current law) necessarily lose Representatives and EC votes as a direct result, due to the fixed number of 435 Representatives.

    Here is an article on the effects of statehood for Puerto Rico on House Apportionment.

    EDIT: Here's a decent summary of some pros and cons:
    http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol2n23/whystatehood-en.html
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  • edited November 2012
    Yeah. Grandfather is 100% Spanish, and those cultural lines run really deep for most people in my family.

    I'm also quite white in terms of pigmentation, which has caused me NO end of issues explaining my ethnicity to nosy/ignorant people.
    Not that surprising, especially if your Colombian side is of mostly (or entirely) European Spanish ancestry. My pigmentation is also fairly white, but I often get mistaken as Latin American by other Latin Americans as, due to my looks (dark hair and eyes and slight olive tint to skin, though still quite white) and my name, they probably often assume I'm a Latin American of mostly European ancestry.
    Latino/Hispanic generally refers to those of Central/South American ancestry.
    I believe Latino refers to Central/South American ancestry and Hispanic refers to European Spanish. So, either way, both of those typically Spanish-speaking cultures are lumped together in the "Latino/Hispanic" identifier.
    It gets more complicated than that, though, as Hispania was the ancient Roman name of what we now call the Iberian Peninsula and composed both of modern day Spain and Portugal, though the Portuguese often prefer to use the terms Lusitania and Lusitanic (or Luso for short) to refer to themselves in specific terms, as that was the ancient Roman name for their little corner of Hispania.

    Plus, as I said, there are different legal definitions depending on who you ask. The US Office of Management and Budget basically uses the "if your culture speaks Spanish, no matter your race, you're Hispanic/Latino." The US Department of Transportation, Small Business Administration, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Conference, and Hispanic Society of America includes Portuguese-derived ethnicities, including Portugal itself, in the definition. The Department of Labor and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission basically go by "if someone thinks he/she is Hispanic/Latino, then they are Hispanic/Latino."
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  • What are the pros and cons of statehood?
    Pro: You have representation in Congress.
    Con: Umm, you have representation in Congress?
    Con: Have to redesign the flag.
  • The flag has had variable stars over the years, and it always looks good. It's not really a problem for anyone.
  • I foresee new Taco Bell's coming to Colorado and Washington in the next year...
  • The flag has had variable stars over the years, and it always looks good. It's not really a problem for anyone.
    I was being facetious.
  • I foresee new Taco Bell's coming to Colorado and Washington in the next year...
    They're all over the place already. Do you think we're a podunk state or something?
  • Pretty surprising to see a moment like this from the leader of the free world.
  • Kinda brilliant meme. #DrunkNateSilver
    The best one is "Drunk Nate Silver sends you a text at 2:00 AM that says 'it's 9:32 AM'. And that's when you read it."

  • I personally was a fan of "Drunk Nate Silver spray paints spots at Yankee Stadium where next years homeruns will land."
  • I like infographics.

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  • edited November 2012
    I'm not sure how they got that Warran vs Brown was the most expensive Senatorial campaign. I read figures of over 77 million that Linda McMahon spend on just her own side of the campaign here in CT.

    But that was mid-campaign, I guess, and may have included her previous campaign. The new figure is 100+ million.
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  • Not true, but lol worthy.

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  • edited November 2012
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  • No surprise there.
  • edited November 2012
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  • Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election

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    So "The South" is racist and the big sky states are either totally not racist, or have yet to discover twitter. I guess the latter.
  • edited November 2012
    States shaded in grey had no geocoded hate tweets within our database. Many of these states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and South Dakota) have relatively low levels of Twitter use as well. Rhode Island has much higher numbers of geocoded tweets but had no hate tweets that we could identify.
    So, Rhode Island won.
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  • edited November 2012
    States shaded in grey had no geocoded hate tweets within our database. Many of these states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and South Dakota) have relatively low levels of Twitter use as well. Rhode Island has much higher numbers of geocoded tweets but had no hate tweets that we could identify.
    So, Rhode Island won.
    First time Rhode Island ever won anything. :P
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  • Hey guys!

    Muir figured out what caused the election to go for Obama:

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  • There are a decent amount of Romney and Cracker. I wonder if floating sheep will do an analytic map of that.
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