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The first leader of the Magyars, Prince Arpád, founded a dynasty that lasted more than three centuries and introduced statehood to the new land.
In recent elections, power has alternated between parties backing the status-quo and those preferring even closer ties with the United States, though a referendum in 1998 defeated a move towards statehood.
Newt Gingrich's disastrous championship of a Puerto Rican statehood bill is ridiculed: Almost no Republican voted for it in the House and Trent Lott has banned the measure from the Senate.
When the issue of a Puerto Rican statehood referendum was debated in Congress a couple of years ago, someone wrote to the Washington Post warning that statehood for Puerto Rico would mean creating "our very own Quebec" unless the Commonwealth adopted an official English policy.
In 1993 and 1998, support was evenly divided between commonwealth status and pursuit of statehood.