My turn.
Why be a second string jacked up banana republic country of our own having to live next to a bunch of backwards corrupt, drug snorting, freeloading moocher buttholes on one side and Mexico on the other border??!?!?

If we retain our statehood, we retain the right to lord it over the lesser states that we are the best!!!
It's like when a small town high school linebacker is on top of the world while in school, when he graduates he's gonna be bald, fat with a ugly wife and annoying kids who he drives around in his Chrysler T&C.
Poor fella falls asleep at night watching Law & Order SVU with a pint of bluebell strawberry ice cream dreaming of his days as the king of the dairy queen.
Let's stay a state and stay #1