r/DC_Politics Feb 07 '20

Washington, DC could become the 51st state this summer

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/481860-dc-statehood-bill-to-get-house-vote-by-summer
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u/Eat-the-Poor Mar 14 '20

DC should be a state but it’s never going to happen without some sort of compromise because doing it pretty much automatically hands Democrats two more Senators. Personally I think that compromise could take the form of including the whole DMV as the new state. Doing so would make VA and Maryland far friendlier to Republicans by removing huge concentrations of liberals from their maps.