https://travelingboy.com/travel/st-john-little-has-changed-50-years/ Traveling Adventures Thu, 20 Feb 2020 05:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://travelingboy.com/travel/st-john-little-has-changed-50-years/#comment-8301 Thu, 20 Feb 2020 05:47:14 +0000 https://travelingboy.com/travel/?p=10727#comment-8301 What this meant for people living on St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix now the U.S. Virgin Islands was unclear. In 1920, the acting secretary of state specified that Virgin Islanders had American nationality but not the political status of citizens. This changed in 1932 when Virgin Islanders won American citizenship, but voting was a separate battle. The U.S. Virgin Islands didn t win the right to vote for their own governor until 1970. Today, American citizens in the U.S. Virgin Islands as well as those in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands still cannot elect voting members to Congress or vote for the president of the United States.

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