Let the thread speak for itself (Originally on Reddit): DC As a State is DC As A Political Failure

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Nickidewbear :flag-md: Maryland 40m

Constitutionally, D.C. was never intended to be a state. It was deliberately set aside as a district to represent all states.

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QuidYossarian 39m

And the capital would continue to not be a state, remaining a separate federal district.

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Nickidewbear :flag-md: Maryland 34m

The point of the district is to be the district in which the capital was the seat.

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QuidYossarian 29m

And that would still be the case. The capital district would remain its own distinct entity on federal property.

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Nickidewbear :flag-md: Maryland 24m

If it would become a state, it wouldn’t. You can’t have it both ways.

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QuidYossarian 19m

Pay attention.

The federal district would be shrunk down to just the government buildings. That would remain Washington, DC.

The private residences and businesses outside of that would become a new state.

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Nickidewbear :flag-md: Maryland 14m

And you would just leave the capital plonked right in the middle of the state? It would make no sense. Just leave DC as is or give Marylander DC back to Maryland and Virginian DC back to Virginia. In fact, that might actually make the Democrats happier and give them two now-larger-and-majority-Democratic states and not violate the Constitution.

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QuidYossarian 9m

Doesn't violate the constitution.

The capital is already surrounded by one state with another.across a river. So nothing there changes.

MD legislators oppose incorporating DC into the state nearly 10 to 1 and MD citizens 4 to 1. So that's out.

I swear I've never seen so many Americans so openly opposed to democracy.

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See replies [Here, I tell him that he actually proves my point, is Maryland and Virginia are the two states affected by the DC divide. He’s not making the point that he likes to think that he’s making when he saying that DC would be a state divided by a river. PS the US is also a republic, not a democracy.

CryingWhiteFolk 32m

The federal district would still not be a state, it would just be smaller than it is now.

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Nickidewbear :flag-md: Maryland 26m

Yet, they are trying to make the federal district into a state. I would give you the benefit of the doubt and say that your intellectual dishonesty is cognitive dissonance if I myself wanted to be intellectually dishonest.

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