Red Guam

[cronus]

Two dumbest kids on the block. Sooner or later their gonna fight.

[rainbow]

Clearly.

Why did you even need to post it?

[cronus]

Clearly.

Why did you even need to post it?

Wanted to get the pun in first....clearly I've a competitive edge here.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 84096.html

[Forty Two]

....if I start seeing Cubans parachuting into my town, I'll know something is afoot.

[NineBerry]

So question: How is it possible that Guan belongs to the US but its inhabitants are not allowed to vote in federal US elections? Seems like a leftover from the age of colonialism to me.

[cronus]

So question: How is it possible that Guan belongs to the US but its inhabitants are not allowed to vote in federal US elections? Seems like a leftover from the age of colonialism to me.

Former Guam come mid-August.

[rainbow]

Clearly.

Why did you even need to post it?

Wanted to get the pun in first....clearly I've a competitive edge here.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 84096.html

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Fair enough.

[Forty Two]

So question: How is it possible that Guan belongs to the US but its inhabitants are not allowed to vote in federal US elections? Seems like a leftover from the age of colonialism to me.

Well, it is rather a "leftover" from the United States' relatively small participation in colonial days. The US didn't start having colonies really until the Spanish-American War, when Spanish colonies went over to the US, and almost all of them were freed, except Puerto Rico. Other countries also have "leftovers", such as France which maintains current colonial holdings in the Americas as follows: Îles des Saintes, Marie-Galante, la Désirade, Martinique, Clipperton Island, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Collectivity of Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy. France also has Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Île Amsterdam, Île Saint-Paul, Adélie Land, in and around Antarctica. And, in French East Africa, they have Reunion, and Mayotte, among others.

Guam is an unincorporated territory, so it is controlled and owned by the US government, but it is not technically incorporated into the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unincorpo ... ted_States

It's common for countries to have holdings which are not afforded the same rights as states or provinces or other areas of a country.

[Forty Two]

So question: How is it possible that Guan belongs to the US but its inhabitants are not allowed to vote in federal US elections? Seems like a leftover from the age of colonialism to me.

Former Guam come mid-August.

How can you be so glib and cavalier about the future of the Guamamians.

I just wanted to write "Guamamians." Go ahead, say it: Guamamian. Guamamian.

[NineBerry]

So question: How is it possible that Guan belongs to the US but its inhabitants are not allowed to vote in federal US elections? Seems like a leftover from the age of colonialism to me.

Other countries also have "leftovers", such as France which maintains current colonial holdings in the Americas as follows: Îles des Saintes, Marie-Galante, la Désirade, Martinique, Clipperton Island, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Collectivity of Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy. France also has Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Île Amsterdam, Île Saint-Paul, Adélie Land, in and around Antarctica. And, in French East Africa, they have Reunion, and Mayotte, among others.

AFAIK those are all allowed to vote in the French elections for parliament and president.

[JimC]

I'm pretty sure that's correct, Nine...

Lift your came, Merkins!

[Svartalf]

So question: How is it possible that Guan belongs to the US but its inhabitants are not allowed to vote in federal US elections? Seems like a leftover from the age of colonialism to me.

Other countries also have "leftovers", such as France which maintains current colonial holdings in the Americas as follows: Îles des Saintes, Marie-Galante, la Désirade, Martinique, Clipperton Island, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Collectivity of Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy. France also has Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Île Amsterdam, Île Saint-Paul, Adélie Land, in and around Antarctica. And, in French East Africa, they have Reunion, and Mayotte, among others.

AFAIK those are all allowed to vote in the French elections for parliament and president.

Indeed they are, even citizens from places that are 'territories' rather than 'departments', like Tahiti and French polynesia, or New Caledonia (until the kanaks get independence) vote for the president and have legislators representing them.