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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Fun fact - the primary reason for the Virginia retrocession is that abolitionists in Congress were pushing for an end to the slave trade in the District, and Old Town Alexandria had one of the region's largest slave markets and didn't want to see business disrupted
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They were wise to do so - a House resolution condemning the slave trade passed two years later in 1848 and the trade was formally banned in DC in 1850 This is not something the tour guides in historic Old Town Alexandria like to talk about
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Ah, I've been reminded this is wrong -- there were THREE cities in DC originally, Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria Georgetown will never forget their proud history of already being a city at the time of the Founding
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That's why they're too good to have a Metro stop
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