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Puerto Rico introduces bill to become US state

The rest of DC should be given back to MD (probably adding one more congressional district to MD) just as some of DC was given back to VA earlier. The idea that a city, with the population of DC (currently ranked the 22nd largest US city - but above the populations of the states of WY and VT) could become a state would open up a can of worms (to create up to 21 more "city-states" with up to 42 more Senators).

Wasn't the reason for making Washington D.C. independent of any state due to having the capital where the US Government resides under a state's laws, which itself is also under the US Government, a bit of an uncomfortable situation? A lot of other nations do similar things.
 
Wasn't the reason for making Washington D.C. independent of any state due to having the capital where the US Government resides under a state's laws, which itself is also under the US Government, a bit of an uncomfortable situation? A lot of other nations do similar things.

It doesn't seem to cause any problems for the many federal agencies located in VA...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_Northern_Virginia

or (elsewhere) in MD...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_installations_in_Maryland

In the 1830s, the District's southern territory of Alexandria went into economic decline partly due to neglect by Congress. The city of Alexandria was a major market in the American slave trade, and pro-slavery residents feared that abolitionists in Congress would end slavery in the District, further depressing the economy. Alexandria's citizens petitioned Virginia to take back the land it had donated to form the District, through a process known as retrocession.

The Virginia General Assembly voted in February 1846 to accept the return of Alexandria and on July 9, 1846, Congress agreed to return all the territory that had been ceded by Virginia. Therefore, the District's current area consists only of the portion originally donated by Maryland. Confirming the fears of pro-slavery Alexandrians, the Compromise of 1850 outlawed the slave trade in the District, although not slavery itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
 
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