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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't we combine DC with MoCo, PG, Arlington and Fairfax County into a state? That would give it a combined population enough to justify being a state.

And as bait to the Republicans, it'd mean both the rest of Virginia and even Maryland suddenly turn much more reddish.

Balances things out all around.

Now lets see how the partisans gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of two more Dem senate seats react to this....as that will tell you everything you need to know.

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Well, using your logic we would need to move some other things around since DC is already bigger than several states. So we would merge Alaska with Hawaii; the Dakotas go together; Vermont and New Hampshire smush, etc. [/quote]

The only reason the Dems are pushing for DC statehood is the glee at the prospect of two more permanent Democratic senators. That's their only reason. It's not and never about voting disenfranchisement.

If you want people to accept DC statehood without it being a highly partisan grab for power, it needs to be tit for tat. Other states don't have that problem. Making DC a larger region is a political compromise because it reduces the overall partisanship power grab because combining NOVA with DC and PG/Montgomery County allows the Republicans to win senate seats in the rest of Virginia and also makes Maryland much more purple.

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Yeah, that proposal would not work. DC and Md are very different policyically from Va. And now that NoVa basically controls the state and has their own two senators, they would not be willing to give that up. DC and Md are similarly politically and it was Md’s land which is why retrocession makes sense. I would support retrocession even if DC was solid red, but I would not support statehood if it were solid red. [/quote]

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