Posted on 06/01/2019 1:05:14 PM PDT by LibWhacker
What about statehood for the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and any other overseas possessions? Why do we only hear about statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia?
They want the 2 additional Senators.
Uhmmmm. no. A city is not a state. Maryland can have the cesspool.
Another waste of time and taxpayer dollars.
No one forces anyone to live in the District of Columbia. If Ms. Norton believes she is a second class citizen for living in Washington DC (which is not at all true), she can move to Virginia or Maryland or wherever it is she believes the first class citizens live.
They want two guaranteed Democrat US Senators to be added to the Senate.
Not in my lifetime Cummings, not in several lifetimes.
Of course they do. It’s why they want Puerto Rico also. 4 more Senate seats that are guaranteed to always be Democrat. Plus it would add and another 15 Democrats seats in the House.
The Democrats right now have a strategy to gain a permanent majority through both immigration and adding states. And most Republicans are not taking it seriously at all.
“It would dominate the state of Maryland just like NYC dominates NYS and Chicago dominates Illinois.”
Maryland is already a liberal Democrat state. The GOP governor is anti Trump. Better to add more guaranteed liberal votes to a state that is already automatically giving its electoral votes to the Democrat presidential candidate than give statehood to DC, thereby automatically adding two Democrat Senators, 1 Democrat vote in the House, and 3 Democrat Electoral votes.
Its not a state.
Been more or less readyfor 20 years now.
No effing way. They want representation in congress? Cede all of DC except for the Federal mall back to Maryland.
There is a reason the Founders kept Washington DC separate from the states, but of course today’s Democrats are so much smarter than them.
A part of me just loves that kid!
I figured he was a Chicago Bears fan, no dice. Feyenoord Rotterdam, a Dutch soccer team. A “football hooligan” in training. :)
As opposed to the rest of the state. It would dominate the state of Maryland just like NYC dominates NYS and Chicago dominates Illinois.
Actually, at 700,000 residents DC is only 100,000 larger than Baltimore.
Like DC is so different from Baltimore.
100%
Puerto Rico has held multiple referenda on becoming a state. It remains a territory as the voted will of its citizens.
No thanks. You can keep it.
Actually, if you would look up the factual information, you would learn that DC is gentrifying and growing over the last ten years. That gentrification has brought white people into the center city and is changing some of the political dynamics of the city. The city has grown from 602,000 in 2010 to 702,000 at the last estimate for 2018. The Decenial low point was 2000 at 572,000.
According to 2017 Census Bureau data, the population of Washington, D.C., was 47.1% Black or African American, [50.7% in 2010] 45.1% White [38.5% in 2010] (36.8% non-Hispanic White), 4.3% Asian, [3.5% in 2010] 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. Individuals from two or more races made up 2.7% of the population.
For Maryland it would have an impact on its politics which has the typical liberal city vs rural conservative divide allowing for election of Republicans statewide which would probably end. It would dilute each state house members role with the addition of delegates or reorganization of the existing number. At 700,000 it would add one congressional seat and one elector (at the expense of another state), but no senators.
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