Earliest Puerto Rico as a US State?

hey, all. all this stuff with Puerto Rico and its possibly impending statehood after more than a hundred years as a territory just reminded me that, a long time ago for my ASB ATL, i decided that Puerto Rico is ratified as a state only a few years after it becomes a territory. however, i'd like to look at exactly how plausible it is that Puerto Rico becomes a state at around this time, or at least something during the earlier half of the 20th century

for context, ITTL Puerto Rico is the 52nd state with the addition of several Canadian and Mexican states (and a singular Dakota) and a closer diplomatic and social relationship with Mexico, so the Americans would probably be more eager to admit Latinos into the Union as a majority rather than a plurality in a given state. yes, yes, i know, i know, butterflies dictate that that Puerto Rico as we know it shoudn't even exist if most of Canada is part of the US, but, again, this is just to vaguely put the demographics of the US in mind: there's more Latin Americans in the country earlier on and seen on more equal footing as Europeans than IOTL
 
My sense is that to have Puerto Rican statehood you'd need Cuban statehood first. As we all know that for a brief moment that nation was a US possession (the exact nature of which escapes me) but got total independence apart from the Platt Amendment in 1902. Should Cuba have returned to the US fold / never became independent in the first place and somehow became a state--perhaps in the early '20s in a timeline when there was no great war and thus no postwar insularism xenophobia--then perhaps Puerto Rico could have become sufficiently "Americanized" (lacking a better term) by the late '40s/early '50s to gain statehood.

But both would require the ascendancy of English, in my view. I don't think Congress would have looked favorably on a new state in which English wasn't the language of a plurality, if not a majority. That might be easier to attain in Cuba given proximity to Florida; Puerto Rico...less so.
 
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