Status of DC

[PJ]

Statehood if the residents want it. All territories should be allowed to become states via popular sovereignty.

[Flake]

I would want DC to either be a state, or for it to be added to Virginia and vote in Virginia elections.

[Wolverines34]

Statehood.  

Agreed.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

A state in all but name, so option 4.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

I'd be pretty okay with anything but the status quo, but I'd prefer statehood.  At the very least, it should have voting Representatives in Congress.  It has a bigger population than Vermont and Wyoming, so there's no reason why it should be the way it is.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Give its member of Congress full voting rights, or give it back to Maryland.

[politicallefty]

Statehood. My second choice would be full representation in Congress without statehood. That would mean full representation in both the House and Senate (with House/Electoral College representation based on its population instead of the smallest state). In others, my second choice would be the failed DC Voting Rights Amendment proposed by Congress in 1978.

From a purely political standpoint, I wouldn't mind adding DC to Virginia. Discounting where the land originally came from, I don't see a particularly strong reason as to why Maryland would be any better than Virginia. However, I don't ever see either state ever absorbing DC. I can't see it ever not being its own separate entity.

[WalterMitty]

Statehood (not a racist)

[Ebowed]

Statehood (not a racist)

^^^

[IceSpear]

Statehood (not a racist)

You honestly think Republicans oppose DC statehood because of racism, and not because it would give the Democrats 2 solid Senate seats and a solid House rep?

Not saying opposing it for brazen lust of power is good, but...

[Ebowed]

Statehood (not a racist)

You honestly think Republicans oppose DC statehood because of racism

Uh, we are talking about the party that takes every possible opportunity to make it harder for people to vote, while vigorously defending taxation without representation in DC.  All that talk of fairness in the tax code goes right out the window as soon as you try to grant blacks the right to vote.

[Lief 🗽]

Statehood (not a racist)

You honestly think Republicans oppose DC statehood because of racism, and not because it would give the Democrats 2 solid Senate seats and a solid House rep?

Not saying opposing it for brazen lust of power is good, but...

If you support statehood for Vermont and Wyoming but not DC then you're probably a racist.

[IceSpear]

Statehood (not a racist)

You honestly think Republicans oppose DC statehood because of racism, and not because it would give the Democrats 2 solid Senate seats and a solid House rep?

Not saying opposing it for brazen lust of power is good, but...

If you support statehood for Vermont and Wyoming but not DC then you're probably a racist.

Well the difference would be that Vermont is already a state and it is nearly impossible to get rid of an established state, whereas opposing DC statehood simply requires garden variety obstructionism. But I bet if the GOP controlled all 3 branches of government, and a vote came up that required a simple majority to merge Vermont into New York, they'd all vote for it.

[WalterMitty]

Statehood (not a racist)

You honestly think Republicans oppose DC statehood because of racism, and not because it would give the Democrats 2 solid Senate seats and a solid House rep?

Not saying opposing it for brazen lust of power is good, but...

race is certainly part of it.

why do so many democrats oppose statehood?

[IceSpear]

Statehood (not a racist)

You honestly think Republicans oppose DC statehood because of racism, and not because it would give the Democrats 2 solid Senate seats and a solid House rep?

Not saying opposing it for brazen lust of power is good, but...

race is certainly part of it.

why do so many democrats oppose statehood?

I've never seen a poll on DC statehood, so I googled it, and only Rasmussen seems to have polled it. And they asked a lot of other questions before it which could have skewed the results. But I find this to be a good explanation:

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[Nichlemn]

I think that at the bare minimum the Representative should be a full voting member. With respect to Senate representation, I disagree with the argument that it should have two Senators because Wyoming has two Senators - in my mind, no state should have a disproportionate number of Senators, and adding another small state just makes it worse. However, it's all highly unrepresentative for a state to have no say at all in the Senate. Retrocession or the ability to vote in MD Senate elections would be a way of giving DC voters a voice without making the Senate even more weighted to small states.