What’s wrong with DC being absorbed into VA or MD?
It should be divided on the original State Lines...but still be it’s own District. No reason why these people should not be allowed to vote.
Because their main goal is to get more seats in Congress to gain a permanent majority. DC would give them two more Senate seats.
If you go back to the original ‘DC’, it included Arlington and Alexandria. In the period leading up to the Civil War, this part was carved off because locals still brought Africans in and conducted sales on the docks. Because DC had no real mayor or city council with authority, the practical answer was to release the two areas back to Virginia.
With your suggestion, the Anacostia area (south of the Anacostia River and the SE of the District) could easily revert back to Maryland. Of the remainder (mostly the NW, center of DC, and NE)...I would guess and say that 75-percent could be returned as a county to Maryland.
Two questions would arise....would Maryland accept the two areas (two new counties), and my guess is that politically....it’s a rock-solid ‘NO’. They think the two areas could constitute a state, and that’s the only option.
The second question is locally, with residents in DC...would they sign up to be part of Maryland? In local vote, the residents would probably say ‘no’...thinking they could get state status.
For reference, the area of the district that is government-business for the most part....is a 2 mile by 2 mile area. The rest of DC is residence, business, or secondary government related.
I would also offer this opinion (having lived there in Arlington for 3.5 years)...the DC city management and city council is highly fractured, corrupted, and it would be in everyone’s interest to let Maryland take over the management to this. For those suggesting Maryland is highly corrupted...oh, yes, I agree. But DC’s corruption level is probably three or four times the amount that Maryland generates. The idea that the District could neutral and dedicated to just federal business, was a nice idea but that probably disappeared by the 1840s to 1860s.
What’s wrong with DC being absorbed into VA or MD?
The original boundaries of DC included land given by Virginia. That part of the District of Columbia was given back to Virginia, in 1846 as I recall.
So they could simply give the part given by Maryland, back to Maryland. Then they would have full congressional representation. Problem solved.
But the liberals want to ensure that there are two additional Democrat senators from D.C.
That’s what I think. Most of the swamp already lives in VA or MD; let those states absorb the rest of the residents.
Exactly and then disperse the Federal Government around the country.
With modern technology it is no longer a requirement that they all be in on place.
DC is on the east side of the Potomac and Maryland is already a Communist State, so let them have it.
Virginia is already becoming a blue state and we have our own troubles. We don't need all those cretins from DC here.
Even better, shut down DC and move 98% of federal functions out to the states.
Maybe keep the White House and President there.
The country would be better off a million fold if we just moved that concentration of corrupt idiots out to their home states and let them meet via Zoom now and then.
Other than the Constitution defining the capital as its own district over which Congress exercises exclusive control?
Bingo.