Newt again

 Only a short while after I noted his proposal from many years ago for statehood for American colonies in space, Newt Gingrich has mentioned that very topic in a speech on Florida’s Space Coast:

"When they have 13,000 Americans living on the moon," he said, "they can petition to become a state."

Only thirteen thousand? And people criticised President Lincoln for admitting Nevada to statehood when it was just short of the then-customary sixty-thousand population limit. And what would this do to the Wyoming Rule?