Read @timothypmurphy on Tom Cotton: “The contention that places with large non-white populations would be too inept—or would lack proper values—to govern themselves and others has been used to block statehood & home rule repeatedly in the nation’s history”https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/tom-cotton-washington-dc-statehood/ …
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Hmmmm. Wonder why???
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the system works as *intended*.
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To a certain extent, but I would hazard a guess that the framers of the Constitution never envisioned that there would be any state with nearly 80 times the population of the smallest ones.
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if half of them were told, they're now constituents of the md or va senators, would that not be an equally valid solution?
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No the time for retrocession passed long ago. DC now has its own longly entrenched residential culture and deserves full, individual representation. It still wouldn't even be close to the smallest state by population (and it's growing at about 100,000 per decade currently).
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Just make it number 51 and get on with things!!
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Trump won’t approve it. Override!
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I do like bicameralism though so let's replace the Senate with something else, maybe like a second House but with longer terms and term limits
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