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Cool. You always wonder what the new stars are from...Puerto Rico and DC? Others...?
 
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Oh. Cool. You always wonder what the new stars are from...Puerto Rico and DC? Others...?

You are very observant!

I use a 51-star flag out of my belief that the District of Columbia should be admitted to the Union as a state. I view the current situation, in which District citizens -- who outnumber citizens of the State of Wyoming -- are denied representation in Congress while having to pay federal taxes, and in which the District government must constantly worry about Congressional interference into its internal affairs (such as LGBT marriage), as being fundamentally unjust and anti-democratic.

I considered using a 56-star flag out of my belief that the United States should guarantee similar equality in the Union to the other territories -- the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands of the United States -- but I decided that would be inappropriate, since those territories' citizens have not had referenda to clearly establish their desire to join the Union as states. Whereas the District of Columbia very clearly wishes for statehood; that's the stated position of the District government, and District citizens have twice approved state constitutions as part of the statehood application process.
 
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