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In the canton (the blue field).Beyond that, it’s impossible to say in advance. The most likely design is something like this:But there are other ideas:Or this one:The design of the canton, indeed of the entire flag, is not anywhere set in law. The law only requires that there be one white star per state in a blue canton to the upper left, and that the balance of the flag be white and red stripes alternating, to total six white and seven red. The remainder of the details are not specified in law.The specific design of the canton to be used on official US flags is set forth by executive order, but that simply specifies what sort of flags the US government will buy for official use. You are free to make a US flag with any pattern of stars you like. Most flags sold to the public do not comport with the specification for government use as they’re usually the wrong height-to-width ratio.If the United States gains a state, the President will ultimately decide what the design of the new canton will be, and the President’s decision will be binding on all federal agencies including the military. It is likely that the President will delegate this decision to a committee of some sort, and that citizens will be invited to submit designs in a competition, as happened in 1958 in anticipation of the accession of Alaska and Hawaii to statehood, resulting in the 49-star flag that flew from July 4, 1959 until July 3, 1960, and the 50-star flag that has flown since July 4, 1960.

The facts of the US financial situation tell us that there isn’t money for a wall nor is there money for Puerto Rico’s so called recovery or any area’s recovery for that matter (the government isn’t even close to the most effective way to find recovery, so let’s be grateful private businesses get an opportunity to serve potential customers as they desire to be). There isn’t money for much of anything. The US government has been spending stolen funds as if there’s no end to the flow.This video with Professor Antony Davies offers perspective on how the government has no chance to resolve this problem without drastic changes in their spending. Further taxation won’t solve it. Massive cuts in spending is the only way.This video, again with Professor Davies, helps us visualize how horrific the US government budget has been neglected and abused.Personally I don’t feel any responsibility for the abuse, neglect, or any of the debt at all. The bureaucrats who have plundered productive individuals in society are responsible. Instead of feeling responsible, I feel it’s best to find a way to donate time, money, and effort to needs I feel are worthy of that time, money, and effort. As a large group of individual actors we can make a much more signNow difference than the outrageously inefficient government.

Money.According to Wikipedia, power lines cost about $10/foot, while underground cable ducts cost $20-$40 per foot (more in cities). If Puerto Rico were a state, we would be the poorest state in the Union (Mississippi, America’s poorest state, had a median household income of $41,754 in 2016, compared with Puerto Rico’s $18,626 - and I shudder to think what that last figure is going to look like in the new post-Maria reality).Federal disaster recovery funding expressly pays to replace the existing infrastructure, not improve it. And there *is* no funding except disaster funding.There was a time when America invested in infrastructure. That era is long past. We’re just coasting as long as we can, at this point.

Castilian is Spanish.It’s two names for the same exact thing, Spanish originated in Castile, and “Castilian” is used mostly in Spain to differentiate it from the other co-official languages.The only thing a Puerto Rican would notice in Spain is a different accent, the use of the θ sound for z and the soft c, some different idioms and slang words, and the use of vosotros instead of ustedes.That’s it.Basically like someone from California can understand British English.

Well, my first response was "They did that? Interesting." In all honestly, most Americans just don't think of Puerto Rican statehood. Statehood for the District of Columbia is more of an issue, because DC is very vocal about it. But even then, I'm biased, having lived near, though not in, DC for twenty five years now. I suppose you could say I support Puerto Rican statehood in that I'd be for it if it came to a Congressional vote and the people of Puerto Rico clearly favored it. It's hardly a big issue for me, though. Others might oppose it, but very few would get really angry about it, with the exception of bigots who don't want a Hispanic state added to the Union. As for the tactic of adding a star, I think it's probably ill-considered. The words "publicity stunt" spring to mind. I'd say it's most likely to tick off people who view the flag as sacred and inviolable.

It’s worse than that: on most forms that have only a few options (Joseph Boyle is right that the US Census now gets more specific), Asians-and-Pacific-Islanders is all one group. That means from the Maori through Indonesia and Polynesia, then Vietnam, straight up past Mongolia, and east out to Japan and west right out past India — all one “race”. Why?Because racism, that’s why.To be specific, because historically in the US the only racial difference that counted was white/black — that is, white and and not-white. For centuries that was how distinctions of race and (implied) class were made. There were quite a few court cases where light-skinned Japanese (etc) petitioned to be declared white — they usually weren’t — and where dark-skinned South Asians (etc) petitioned to be declared non-black — which sometimes worked. In fact, it worked so well that some American Blacks donned turbans and comic-opera inaccurate “Eastern” garb to perform more widely as an “Indian” musician than they’d ever be allowed to do in their original identity.So in the 1800s, there was white and Black. Period. Well, ok, and Native Americans, but to the people that mattered, they hardly counted (and were all dead, anyhow, right?). As colonialism and rising globalization brought more and more people who were neither white nor black to North America, there became an increasing dilemma about how to classify this cacophonous mob of confusing non-white people.Eventually the terms “Arab” and “Asian” came to be widely used, and some classifiers (see also Why is "Caucasian" a term used to label white people of European descent? ) also separated Pacific islander from the general morass of “Asian”. But in general, everyone from the Mysteeeeerious East was just called one thing, unless you felt you needed to specify a country.So, like I said: racism. And a racist tendency to dismiss as unimportant distinctions between different groups of “unimportant” people.

In the short term, the federal government will continue to provide aid under federal disaster declarations for Irma and Maria. Some expenses will be unique or unavailable for the territory (can't easily send in trucks to restore power lines, more military closer to assist than most states). When FEMA needs more money, some politicians may have some issue with the funding (i.e. Ted Cruz with Super Storm Sandy) but generally these emergency funding measures go through relatively quickly. While many Americans may not want to help a “foreign” land, many industries (like cruise lines) and Puertorican ex-pats (more Puerto Ricans live in Florida or Greater NYC than on the island) will provide support.In the long term, Puerto Rico may need special help with long term debt. Puerto Rico, and her various local governments, cannot declare bankruptcy and are excluded from many fiscal relief efforts States take advantage of. This was already an issue before the storms with default and bailout talks. Without changing this, it will be difficult or impossible for Puerto Rico to get back on it's fiscal feet.