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If we're separating the federal district, why not just give the rest of it back to Maryland the same way the area on the other side of the Potomac was given bac
by jcfields 6y ago
If we're separating the federal district, why not just give the rest of it back to Maryland the same way the area on the other side of the Potomac was given back to Virginia?
- dragonwriter 6y agoI think that was floated at one point and MD didn't want it back.
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoNor does DC want to join MD.
- dragonwriter 6y agoSure, that’s a political problem with the idea, but MD not wanting DC is a Constitutional problem.
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- xref 6y agoBoth DC and Maryland could vote on that as an alternative to statehood, but remember they were separated 230 years ago so simply forcing a reunion on the populations of both locations seems suboptimal
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoIt's perfect except that neither DC nor Maryland want that.
- SllX 6y agoWhich is exactly why we should do it anyway.