1srelluc
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In the wake of a Virginia referendum on redistricting that could help Democrats secure as many as four more House seats come autumn’s midterms, a House Republican has an unconventional solution to help his party’s odds: return to D.C. a deep blue slice of the currently purple state. In other words, Make D.C. Square Again.
The legislation, introduced by Rep. Richard McCormick (R-Georgia), seeks to revive a long-settled D.C. border dispute involving neighboring Alexandria and Arlington County by restoring the original boundaries of the nation’s capital established by the Residence Act of 1790, when the map was square instead of its current shape resembling the continental United States. (Keen observers might note that, were Alexandria and Arlington discounted from Tuesday’s election, the referendum that could help Democrats win 10 of the state’s 11 House seats still would have passed, according to election results.)
“DC Bureaucrats hijacked Virginia … but we will restore it,” McCormick wrote on X. “That’s why I introduced the Make DC Square Again Act, because it’s a simple concept: DC =∎”
The bill aims to undo the 1846 retrocession of Arlington County and the City of Alexandria, moving about 250,000 voters from the Commonwealth to the District — which does not have congressional representation.
The bill would need to survive multiple layers of scrutiny, including from lawmakers who like the current borders the way they are. Residents of Arlington and Alexandria show no interest in leaving Virginia and, political observers say, courts are unlikely to reopen an issue treated as settled for generations. To local politicians, including fellow Republicans, McCormick’s proposal is little more than political theater.
A great idea that will go nowhere but at least it's being thought about.
I'm more in favor of cutting NOtVA off at about Bull Run Mountain and give everything east of that to DC or MD.
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