I hope Trump does it. He has nothing to lose
And now is the time - when S out
And now is the time- with SCOTUS loaded with textualists.
Puting Arlington back in DC would not make the city any less blue but it would upset the racial balance. Washington has been getting more and more diverse and with it less and les Chocolate City. Immigration and gentrification and black flight have already diluted black political control. Arlington is 58% white and only 9% black, there are more Asians in the county than blacks and more Hispanics than Asians. Alexandria is 50% white and 19% black with again large Asian and Hispanics cohorts. Meanwhile DC is about evenly split between black and white each having roughly 40% but the white population has been growing while the black population has been in decline. It is no longer the Chocolate City I lived and worked in when I was a young man.