So that there would be two more democratic senators. I don’t think it does nothing for the house as I don’t think the Puerto Rican population would add another house seat to NY or would it give NY another electoral vote.

it has 3.4 million people. Connecticut has a bit over 3.5 million and 5 reps.

Regardless of population there will only be 435 reps in the house. I don’t know if adding 3 Million people will give NY more of that pie when they already have the 3rd most. And if they do add a district, what state do they steal from? Let’s justvsay it’s Ohio or Michigan. The republican led government would just Split democratic districts and merge them with strong conservative ones.

or more likely a gain of 3 if you include the 1 they are losing.

But I still think in the end, it would cost us a democratic district somewhere else.

states that lose seats.

I don't know where the marginal seats are at. For two censuses in a row NC was on the margin. Once NC got the seat over Utah, the second time it didn't. The smaller a state is the harder it is for it to lose out on a seat so it likely would be larger states not smaller ones where the seats would come from.

Puerto Rico has 3.5 million people. Utah and Nevada have 3 million each and 4 representatives each.

I agree that statehood would be better but maybe annexation could be a first step to statehood. There are many states that have split into two in the past.

3 Million people wouldn’t really put a dent on NY’s already huge population. The house is only allowed 435.

... since Utah and Nevada already have that many with less population

But I still think in the end, it would cost us a democratic district somewhere else.

it already has the keys and some islands with no road to them. It could also annex the USVI.

We have our own patriotic sense, our own history and our own culture. That's actually a bigger hurdle to statehood than anything else, unless we can be like Quebec, which is "a nation within a united Canada"... a special state with its own idiosyncrasy inside the American political structure. That, or independence.

What we don't need is the current colonial relationship any longer.

Likely Democrats.

The added political power of New York could overcome that opposition and maybe help as a first step in that direction.

So they'd fit right in here....