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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Replying to @arthur_affect
Luckily H.R. 51 seeks to change that. Hopefully, Douglas Commonwealth is easier to tell apart from Washington!
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @arthur_affect
The city itself would presumably still be just "Washington," so I imagine the confusion will still persist.
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Replying to @FieryDarkstar @arthur_affect
Nobody I know calls DC Washington. Only people who really say it are pundits using it as synecdoche "Congress" or "The Capital".
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @FieryDarkstar
For the record, the City of Washington and the District of Columbia were not originally identical - Washington used to only cover a small part of the District - but they've been geographically coterminous and had a single government since home rule was passed in 1973
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
So, technically speaking, the City of Washington no longer exists and all there is is DC But, of course, "Washington, DC" is such an ingrained traditional place name that the US postal designation of the District as such has never changed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
One fun proposal I've heard is to officially say "DC" now stands for "Douglass Commonwealth" and to say that "Washington" is now a city named for Walter Washington, the first DC home rule mayor (both namesakes being famous Black men)
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Douglas Commonwealth is the official name for the state the DC will become as laid out in H.R. 51.
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Douglass with two Ses, right? After Frederick Douglass?
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Curse 2 a.m. brain! Yes, named that favorite son of DC!
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @arthur_affect and
*after that. Staying up to catch F&WS isn't worth this.
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