I believe the residency of the citizens of Washington DC should fall with whatever state originated their home address, but that the district itself should be kept, policed, and governed by the US government, as prescribed in the constitution. That way each resident would have both House and Senate representation and the burden of financing the district would belong with the federal government.
What do you mean by “whatever state originated their home address”? Many DC residents have never lived anywhere else.
We could do something similar and say that residents of DC shall be deemed residents of MD (while keeping the city under federl control), but it would result in MD becoming hopelessly Democrat, and Baltimore becoming largely irrelevant in the state, without the benefit of VA becoming safely Republican. Besides, do you really need the feds to govern over residential areas in DC? We just need to keep the feds in charge of the government buildings and monuments, areas that I would propose be excluded from a State of New Columbia.
VA got their piece back it’s all MD.
We can’t do that to Maryland, they would never a Republican again, may not anyway but still. And the poor Maryland taxpayers.
I support making a new state only if liberal suburbs in both Va and MD are added as Auh2o suggests.
If democrats would never agree to that then the residents of DC can pound sand as far as I’m concerned, I’d take away their electoral votes if I could. I know I am very mean.