Talking to myself, again. I am interested in the response, so bringing this forward:

re: #186 danarchy

As long as their population was counted towards that states congressional representation it would give them exactly as much representation as any other city.

Then the District of Columbia would become part of the state of MD; It is not. I am leaving VA out of this because they already took their land back. The state of MD doesn’t need nor want to take the land back. Nor would the city want to lose autonomy, which it would by force of annexation. You can’t dissociate the representation from the block of land; i.e., you can’t give the representation to MD (both house and senate) and give the city the autonomy that it deserves.

re: #197 Belafon

Would Virgina or Maryland be allowed to vote on the issue of unrepaired streets in the city, or the need to update the sewage system?

DC needs to be autonomous entity, giving it back to MD (VA has already taken its land back) would remove that autonomy. And having MD take on the burden of the issues in DC is nothing that we (MD’ers) would ever agree to.