Sotomayor was once a Puerto Rican nationalist who favored independence - is she still? Will the GOP ask?

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Sotomayor's 178-page senior thesis, La Historia Ciclica De Puerto Rico. The Impact Of The Life Of Luis Muñoz Marin On The Political And Economic History of Puerto Rico, 1930-1975.

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An award-winning history professor -- K.C. Johnson of Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center -- read it.

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Here is Johnson's detailed assessment:

It's solidly researched and fairly well written -- uses lots of data, more or less presents an argument, and has a pedagogical approach that is very much mainstream.

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There are also a few jarring elements that contrast to the pedagogical approach. First, I'm curious as to when Sotomayor ceased being a Puerto Rican nationalist who favors independence -- as she says she does in the preface. I don't know that I've seen it reported anywhere that she favored Puerto Rican independence, which has always been very much a fringe position.

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