In a referendum on 6 November 2012, 53.9% of Puerto Rican voters voted against maintaining the territory's political status, and 61.15% opted for U.S. statehood if the territory's status were to be changed.
However, in the following days petitions from every state in the union have been penned asking the government to allow them to peacefully succeed from the United States. We respectfully ask the government to accept the people of Puerto Rico into the fold so that they may immediately turn their back on it and form their own government along with everyone else.