Puerto Rican Wins Powerball; Twitter Racists Freak Out

Technically, Puerto Rico is part of America.

pr powerballIt’s bad enough that professionals searching for “PR” in Google have to sift through tourism advertisements from Puerto Rico, but now money in Powerball is going across a few islands to reach a lucky winner.

ICYMI: the recent Powerball drawing had three big winners: one in North Carolina, one in Texas and one in Puerto Rico. Given how this proud nation is 50 states strong, and its only assumed permissible island is in a different ocean, there were a few terse words exchanged via Twitter about this kerfuffle.

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