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i guess i'm more ignorant about (none / 0) (#16)
by cpinva on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 12:34:15 AM EST
PR than i thought, but how racial can it really be? isn't the majority of the population hispanic? i mean, it was settled by spain and all that. is there a significant african and indiginous people population there?

again, why don't they just decide what the hell they want to be, what's the hold up on having an island-wide referendum on this?

Don't know much myself but (none / 0) (#17)
by jes on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 01:14:50 AM EST
wiki has:
In the 2000 U.S. Census Puerto Ricans were asked to indicate in which racial categories they consider themselves to belong; 80% described themselves as "white"; 8% as "black"; 12% as "mulatto" and 0.4% as "American Indian or Alaska Native".[43][44] (The U.S. Census does not consider Hispanic a race, and asks if a person considers himself Hispanic in a separate question.)

And someone posted this earlier today of Acevedo Vila talking on Charlie Rose. He goes through some of the history of previous referendums IIRC.

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