Hundreds of people in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are marching to demand that the territory become the 51st state, according to AP. Supporters gathered Saturday in the capital of San Juan to request that President Barack Obama honor the results of a November referendum regarding the island's political status. Other groups gathered in Orlando, Florida, and Washington D.C. The demonstration came on the 96th anniversary of a law that granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans. In the referendum's first question, 54 percent of voters said they were not content with commonwealth status. The second question asked what status was preferred. Of the about 1.3 million voters who made a choice, nearly 800,000 supported statehood, some 437,000 favored sovereign free association and 72,560 chose independence. But nearly 500,000 left the question blank.
