Yes The State of Washington and Washington DC have frequently performed these passive-aggressive jabs at each other It starts with the naming of the State of Washington in the first place, which was originally the "Columbia District"https://twitter.com/_dev_urandom_/status/1385455712508256256 …
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So in the modern day they are, for all legal and practical purposes, the same entity
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(You can still find old markings in Old Town Alexandria across the river from when this was not the case, when the two cities in DC were Washington and Alexandria, before the Virginia side was retroceded in 1846 "Alexandria, DC Fire Department", etc)
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As a DC statehood advocate, I probably should pretend like I know this. But I genuinely didn't and that's pretty interesting. Definitely, vindicates my earlier statement!
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Kind of reminds me of how the City of London exists as a separate entity to London. Just one of those odd quirks that happen when boundaries are set without any real thought to possible future growth.
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Yeah if you want to get technical about it, the District Home Rule Act of 1973 abolishes all former political structures within DC and creates a new one, which the law only ever names as "the District of Columbia"
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