Back to the boundaries. Imagine the curiosity the subject would bring out amongst the American subjects. Virginia was a slave state and they wanted to keep it that way. DC slaves had more freedom. Had that part of Virginia stayed part of the capital there might have been more pressure to deal with the issue sooner. I’m not a historian but most can agree our founding fathers had it right and most of their ideas are timeless. So what happens if all of us bored folk get to watch this fight on the tube while the rats are flailing in retreat? It would be like Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Who’s gonna light the fire? It would be awesome.
I don’t care what they do with the boundaries now. Hell, give back Arlington. But not when we were growing up there. Not having that river separate NoVa from DC would have made NoVa horrible, most likely worse than the MD counties bordering DC to the north.