Next Election Could Decide if Washington, D.C., Becomes 51st State

Townhall.com ^ | July 1, 2020 | Byron York

[fieldmarshaldj]

You’d be giving CA SIX Demonrat Senators and maybe a 50/50 chance one of the upstate NY Senators would be a Republican.

[Mr. K]

I think CA would have 4 GOP and 2 Dems if they divided it into 3

[Mr. K]

Western NY would be hard core GOP- I live here, I see it

[Mr. K]

ALSO- if that were true, libs would be screaming for it.

Same with Convention of States- Libs keep warning us how they would get everything they wanted in a COS... If that were true they would be screaming for it.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Not at this point. They’ve been reduced to 7 out of 53 House seats (due to cheating and other chicanery). That would mean you’d get zero Senate seats now. If this were still the ‘90s, you could’ve gotten 4 out of 6. Not anymore.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Depends upon where you’d draw the lines. Unless you were to include Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk, the largest county would be Erie, and they are far from reliably Republican. The other most populous counties voted Demonrat for President (Monroe, Onondaga, Albany, et al). As I said, under ideal circumstances, you might squeeze out one (like PA), but the NE is too unreliable for the GOP anymore. I still believe you’d end up with 4 Demonrats.

[fieldmarshaldj]

We can’t even get the states/federal government to obey our present Constitution. Going to a convention would be ill-advised at this point because it would backfire on us. I guarantee that.

[SunkenCiv]

Approval of that proposed amendment is a dealbreaker.

• Edgy voters might reject the 2020 election results if the Democrat wins the popular vote but loses the electoral vote

[LS]

Agree. Have yet to hear a way to ensure the yahoos you sen to a ConCon would obey their masters once off leash.

[zeestephen]

Re: “California needs to be divided into 3 states.”

Not helpful.

Current Congressional Districts - 85% Democrat

2016 Presidential Election:

Clinton - 62%

Trump - 32%

The best we can hope for with three new states would be a half dozen new Congressional RINOS - like GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

[zeestephen]

Re: “The silent majority no longer exists.”

I agree.

Third World immigrants and their American born children are 65%-75% Democrat.

There are 62 million of them.

Not all of them are voting age, but, they are the swing vote in at least 10 formerly Republican states.

When new immigrant citizens and their voting age children begin to turn out in record numbers, the game is up for Conservatives.

The Republican Party - including Trump - have enthusiastically committed political suicide.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Puerto Rico before Washington DC. Heck, Virgin Islands or Samoa before DC.

[zeestephen]

Re: “Puerto Rico before Washington DC.”

Most people do not realize that 20% of Puerto Rico has moved to the USA mainland since the Great Recession.

Most of them moved to central Florida and the New York City metro area.

[foreverfree]

Bump

[Sgt_Schultze]

Maryland should. They already pay billions for the infrastructure that surrounds DC. The capital beltway is in Maryland and Virginia. The maintenance and new construction comes from tax money no District resident has paid. At least with the additional businesses/citizens, some additional tax revenue would come in to offset the money spent. But, since the Maryland Legislature is primarily extremists, they would likely support creating a new state.

Didn’t Texas’ entry come with a stipulation that they could subdivide into 5 if they wanted to?