Would Puerto Rico be better off ITTL? Personally, I think it would, since the U.S. has basically treated it as a colony that we sometimes forget even exists, not really giving a damn if it gets hit by a Category 5 Hurricane. To Americans, Puerto Rico is the island of Reggaetón and Bartenders turned Congresswomen, not a part of the United States that has been unjustly neglected and allowed to turn into the Caribbean Greece.