<HTML>In a message dated 7/2/2002 8:19:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time, aramsdell@yahoo.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">It's refreshing to have just moved to a heavily Puerto Rican strip of Humboldt Park in Chicago.  Maybe it's the two monumental and steely-looking Puerto Rican flags bracing Division St. a few blocks on either side of us.  If there's a rush from others here, it's for a few more PR flags.  I haven't noticed the Stars 'n' Stripes alongside the PR banner regularly seen being driven around the neighborhood.  But then this is not a nonpoor neighboorhood. Alec </BLOCKQUOTE> I have seen many Puerto Rican flags being flown, or shown, alone here in NJ.  I am Puerto Rican, however, I can't find the flag that most people fly from their rear view mirror.  Very few of the Puerto Rican flag I have seen are accompanied by the american flag.  BTW there was a major controversy in Puerto Rico when the leader of the pro-statehood party broke into the office of one of the department heads on the Govt. of Puerto Rico to place an american flag next to the Puerto Rican flag in the office.  He seems to have run over and assaulted some people while doing this.  He was arrested, but later let go with a $100 fine.  The law in Puerto Rico is that the american flage must always fly nest to the Puerto Rican one. Sergio</HTML>