We have only just begun to nationalize our fight for #DCstatehood. Congress has often acted to right historical wrongs before polls showed that the American public was on board.
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.@Gallup has polled #DCstatehood for the 1st time. This is valuable for two reasons: it shows #DCstatehood has become a national issue and it reinforces our view that the majority of Americans are unaware that DC residents do not have equal representationhttps://news.gallup.com/podcast/260768/del-eleanor-holmes-norton-need-statehood.aspx …
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For example, in 1961, Gallup found that only 22% of Americans approved of the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, Gallup found only 23% of Americans approved of the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech.
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The Founders, who went to war because they paid taxes without representation, did not intend for 700,000 taxpaying American citizens in the capital they created to be the only full taxpaying Americans left without a voice in their own national legislature.
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Taxation Without Representation was the rallying cry that founded this nation. It was unjust in 1776 and it still is in 2019.
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That’s one way of looking at it but the reality is that DC is a city and a medium sized city that would function better economically as part of a state.
@Douglass_County Retrocession to Md. would be far better. - 3 more replies
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It's sad to know that Americans ... who don't know enough about the country to know that you cant vote if you live in DC ... are allowed to vote
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DC's non-voting Delegate US Rep
@EleanorNorton puts optimistic spin on@Gallup@GallupNews#DCstatehood survey & article (when@V4DC2 is still pissed off) despite their result utterly wrongly lumps the plurality of undecided & unsure into the "no" tally!#DCstatehoodNews - 1 more reply
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