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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC will never be a state and the Democrats are just trolling their own.  It's a medium sized city.  [/quote]

This.

It's essentially one oversized corporate campus.[/quote]

OP was looking for [i]legitimate[/i] reasons why someone would oppose DC statehood  :roll: [/quote]

The Founding Fathers explicitly did not want the national capital to be a state and have the voting rights of a state. They wanted to keep it as neutral as possible. I support that and see no reason for changing it.

Everyone knew what the rules were when they moved to DC.If voting rights and representation are so important to them, move to MD or VA. Not that hard.

A decent compromise could be to carve out the federal parts of the District like the Vatican is independent from the Rome, and have the rest of the district merged with Maryland. Problem solved. Now why isn't that a serious option? It'd mean MD would never, ever, have a Republican governor again but it avoids the partisan problem of the movement while giving proper representation to DC residents.

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We see you, racist. [/quote]

Uh - where is the racism?

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There is a poster for whom representation is not why they support statehood and they deem any solution to the taxation without representation problem as racist. Congressional representation is not their priority —  they would rather remain a district with no voting rights in Congress than gain representation (and remove Congressional interference) as a part of Maryland. [/quote]

There are posters who do not live in DC yet because the inhabitants are largely POC they, inhaling deeply in their white privilege, believe said POC (and all POC) to be too stupid or corrupt or criminal to have home home-rule. They further, tapping that deep vein of privilege, presume to divvy up DC in the manner of a colonial  power. This is absolutely racism - and we will continue to call you out on it. Sorry if the truth hurts. [/quote]

So - when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution they fully envisioned that DC would, 200 years later, be a majority black town and deliberately set it up so that DC would never have voting rights specifically to keep black people oppressed? And that for most of DC history up to the 1960s it was a majority white town and its residents were deliberately disenfranchised for colonialist or racist reasons?

Got it.

DC is no longer majority AA and the share is rapidly falling with each year so it's no guarantee that any statehood would give DC more POC senators (or governor - would there be one?)[/quote]

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