I've decided that I do NOT want DC to be a state

[LynneSin]

Because if they were they would lead my state in Donations per 1 million population

As a territory that means DELAWARE is #1

WOOHOO

:bounce:

[lcordero]

1. DC statehood means two more left-leaning Senators

[LynneSin]

2. eep....I'm torn...

maybe DC can be a state ONLY when it's NOT DU donation week.

How's that sound!!

[recidivist]

3. Don't be too sure about that ....

D.C. is small and, in contrast to the other small states, it is somewhere people actually want to live. It is a jewel in the rough, and if we made serious progress on crime and schools, it will become an urban mecca. Make it a state and the Republicans would probably just buy it.

I can imagine, the day after D.C. Statehood is voted in, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell announcing a "crusade to the capitol" and asking 100,000 of their folks to rent an apartment here. How d'ya like the idea of Senator Ralph Reed?

Seriously, D.C. is gentrifying fast. This will continue because the suburbanites are spending two to four hours a day in their cars, and it's getting worse. The "suburban lifestyle" is turning sour. Plain-Jane rowhouses on Capitol Hill that sold for $80,000 twenty years ago are going for $500-600,000, and similar things are happening in quite a few neighborhoods around town.

My tongue-in-cheek comments above aside, I do expect the city to be majority white, very affluent, and politically competitive in another 20 years.