Are there any legitimate reasons why someone would oppose DC statehood?

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Anonymous wrote:Which current state currently has jurisdiction over only one government like DC? Most states have towns and counties with their own governments. There may be a couple of states with lower population, but that population is spread out and requires infrastructure that is quite different from that of a city.

It makes sense to have DC be turned over to Maryland. The "powers that be" have already carved out the federal area, so it would be easy to do this. That will give more representation to Maryland and give representation to the District. They will likely get at least one Congressional representative and will share the selection of the Senators. Perfect sense.

I agree. Even states with small populations are still large in territory and more multifaceted in land use, from urbanized to rural.

Being a state comes with a lot of political powers as well as responsibilities. Would a DC state have a governor as well as mayor?

Handing DC over to MD solves all the issues. So why not do this?

this- Wyoming has real Americans doing real American jobs like collecting disability and farm subsidies

And making crystal meth in the barn.

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Anonymous wrote:Which current state currently has jurisdiction over only one government like DC? Most states have towns and counties with their own governments. There may be a couple of states with lower population, but that population is spread out and requires infrastructure that is quite different from that of a city.

It makes sense to have DC be turned over to Maryland. The "powers that be" have already carved out the federal area, so it would be easy to do this. That will give more representation to Maryland and give representation to the District. They will likely get at least one Congressional representative and will share the selection of the Senators. Perfect sense.

I agree. Even states with small populations are still large in territory and more multifaceted in land use, from urbanized to rural.

Being a state comes with a lot of political powers as well as responsibilities. Would a DC state have a governor as well as mayor?

Handing DC over to MD solves all the issues. So why not do this?

this- Wyoming has real Americans doing real American jobs like collecting disability and farm subsidies

And making crystal meth in the barn.

It's fun to be a bigot, yeah?

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I would love to have voting representation in Congress, but we did just legalize hallucinogenic drugs and name a building after Marion Barry. Any grownups who have a hard time taking us seriously can kinda be forgiven.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to have voting representation in Congress, but we did just legalize hallucinogenic drugs and name a building after Marion Barry. Any grownups who have a hard time taking us seriously can kinda be forgiven.

+1. One of my favorite posts.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to have voting representation in Congress, but we did just legalize hallucinogenic drugs and name a building after Marion Barry. Any grownups who have a hard time taking us seriously can kinda be forgiven.

+1. One of my favorite posts.

And the Mayor traveling to a state she banned her residents from visiting.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to have voting representation in Congress, but we did just legalize hallucinogenic drugs and name a building after Marion Barry. Any grownups who have a hard time taking us seriously can kinda be forgiven.

I don't care at all about voting representation in Congress. if it mattered greatly to me, I'd move. And agree with the above, and more.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to have voting representation in Congress, but we did just legalize hallucinogenic drugs and name a building after Marion Barry. Any grownups who have a hard time taking us seriously can kinda be forgiven.

We didn't legalize hallucinogenic drugs and so what if we named another building after Marion Barry. If you're using those pitiful reasons as excuses to continue disenfranchising 700,000 Americans, you are simply anti-democratic and frankly a POS. Trump sucks and so do you.

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I don't care at all about voting representation in Congress. if it mattered greatly to me, I'd move. And agree with the above, and more.

Well you could say that for every single person who lives in the District that wasn't born here. What a stupid thing to say about the disenfranchisement of 700,000+ Americans.

The foundation of DC disenfranchisement is slavery. Racist white Americans didn't want blacks running the capital. That is a fact. So they took away their voting rights in Congress.

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I don't care at all about voting representation in Congress. if it mattered greatly to me, I'd move. And agree with the above, and more.

Well you could say that for every single person who lives in the District that wasn't born here. What a stupid thing to say about the disenfranchisement of 700,000+ Americans.

The foundation of DC disenfranchisement is slavery. Racist white Americans didn't want blacks running the capital. That is a fact. So they took away their voting rights in Congress.

When did the US capital move to DC?

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When did the US capital move to DC?

Late 1700s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residence_Act

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to have voting representation in Congress, but we did just legalize hallucinogenic drugs and name a building after Marion Barry. Any grownups who have a hard time taking us seriously can kinda be forgiven.

If stupidity is the standard for allowing people enfranchisement in this country, then I have a lot of nominations for states that shouldn’t be states anymore.

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I don't care at all about voting representation in Congress. if it mattered greatly to me, I'd move. And agree with the above, and more.

Well you could say that for every single person who lives in the District that wasn't born here. What a stupid thing to say about the disenfranchisement of 700,000+ Americans.

The foundation of DC disenfranchisement is slavery. Racist white Americans didn't want blacks running the capital. That is a fact. So they took away their voting rights in Congress.

No, it’s not a fact, and your ignorance is showing. Get off your so-called “woke” high horse.

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No, it’s not a fact, and your ignorance is showing. Get off your so-called “woke” high horse.

It is exactly why DC residents didn't have self-governance for over 100 years.