That wouldn’t be the motivation for my moving anywhere, but I can tell you. someone telling me what to do, like that, would have the opposite effect. There’s also a saying, Mind your own business.

 

Good try Mo! LOL!

 

The House passed the bill to make DC our 51st state.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/hou...-bill-that-faces-long-odds-in-the-senate.html


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Well that’ll mess up the flags now.

 

I doubt it will make it through the senate.


The truth is out there

 

Our founding fathers didn’t want women to vote, and look at us now.
Every American citizen should have a say in who runs our country.


The truth is out there

 

Im trying to figure out how that makes sense. Did they believe congresspersons couldn’t be impartial if they saw too many non constituents? Or they would forget about their constituents and vote based on lobbyists? Both those ships have long sailed, reached their destination and dry docked.


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That's so much apples and oranges. The whole point of having a federal district, is so that one state doesn't have direct influence over federal power.

Additionally, if people who lived in DC were actually concerned about not having a say in who runs our country, then why aren't residences of DC petitioning to have their respective neighborhoods be absorbed into existing Virginia or Maryland?

This "making DC a state" thing has nothing to do with voting fairness, having a say or equality. It's political jockeying.

One more thing.... residents of DC do have a say in who runs their country. It's called the national popular vote and the electoral college.

 

Right. Being absorbed seems to solve the issue pretty cleanly. Statehood seems more like trying to create a few more seats in Congress.


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I don’t know about all of the above arguments. I had to look this one up. I thought the history surrounding this push to be interesting. “End taxation without representation”

https://www.history.com/news/washington-dc-statehood-reconstruction

Since 1980, D.C. has advocated for congressional representation through statehood. Activists and politicians have connected D.C.’s fight for representation to similar struggles in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa. Like D.C. residents in 1960, the U.S. citizens who live in these territories pay federal taxes but have no voting members in Congress and can’t vote for president.

Many statehood advocates have pointed out that there is no constitutional reason that D.C., a 68-square-mile city with a larger population than Wyoming and Vermont, cannot become a state.


“Opponents of Washington statehood make specious legal arguments, claiming that the Constitution mandates complete federal authority over the district and thus precludes statehood,” Susan Rice, Barack Obama’s former national security advisor, wrote in the New York Times. “But the Constitution merely states that the federal enclave cannot exceed 10 square miles; it does not prohibit carving out a limited area for government buildings that remains under federal control, while making the rest of the district into a state.”

 

Sounds simple enough but I tend to think if it were that easy to solve it would have been done by now. From the History article, it stated that the land for DC was ceded from Virginia and Maryland in 1790 with a population of approximately 3,000.
Today we’re looking at a population of 706,000.

Does either Virginia or Maryland even want to absorb that many people into their states in one fell swoop? What kind of havoc does that incur on the state level? Who decides where the present demarcation line will be? Do the people of DC want to be absorbed into another state at this point?

If we assume that the majority of people living in DC vote Democrat, how will it effect Virginia and Maryland? I believe Maryland is solidly blue but it will cement Virginia’s slide from red to blue. Would Virginian Republicans support that big of an increase in Democratic voters?

Why isn’t it easier to allow them to form their own state? Because two more Democratic senators would be the end of the world? Hell, I like symmetry. Let’s make DC the 51st state and Puerto Rico 52!

 

I think its time Puerto Rico got to sit at the grown ups table.


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