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[quote=Anonymous]From what I have read, the current District of Columbia will be scaled down to include the Capitol, the White House, the Mall and the Supreme Court.  Essentially it will be still the District of Columbia and Washington D.C. will remain the nation's capital.  This scaled down District of Columbia will not be part of the 51st state.  This action will not be a violation of the Constitution, as the Federal district will be independent of a state.  That means it will still be called "DC" and that two letter abbreviation will remain its postal code designation.  So the new state will be called Douglas Commonwealth and the city can still be called Washington, Douglass Commonwealth (there are four other states that are also commonwealths), however it will have to use a postal code that is not already taken.  DG would work.  People will just have to get use to using the term "DG" instead of "DC" when they are talking about the new state. Also, the people of Douglass Commonwealth will need to design a new state flag.  I see them using the flag for the District of Columbia instead of a flag for the Douglass Commonwealth.  The folks who are trying to separate the 21 counties of northern California into the State of Jefferson already are using a Jefferson state flag.  Douglass Commonwealth needs to do the same.[/quote]

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