strunkenwhite
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So, in principle DC statehood is not an unreasonable proposition, you'd just rather let others skip ahead in line, so to speak?Because they should be dealt with first, by order of precedence. Based upon their lack of status and representation (which DC differs in having such federal status).
I'm not aware that any territories other than Puerto Rico are currently pushing for statehood.
I personally agree with the idea of Puerto Rico gaining statehood before DC, but if the House and Senate bills aimed at doing exactly that get through committee, then it's just a matter of which vote happens first (or ever) and how fast the territory acts on it.
As I said, I don't think DC would be any worse in that regard than Virginia or Maryland, which surround DC and host any number of government departmental headquarters.Yes, because the buildings are irrelevant. Those who work in them is the objection.
Distribute those people around the country and it becomes less of a problem because the federal bureaucracy is incorporated into multiple other state interest groups. As it stands, DC is a federal enclave of federal workers and those servicing them, not a state or a territory (and more influential in reality for it)