# District of Columbia becomes a state--- what should it be called? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 22, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/district-of-columbia-becomes-a-state-what-should-it-be-called/940553 "2021-04-22T17:27:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 127
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/district-of-columbia-becomes-a-state-what-should-it-be-called/940553/127 "2021-04-25T18:35:04Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > They do not represent me. I did not vote for them. They routinely act against the wishes and interests of DC residents. This post is not just wrong, it’s offensive. > [@Statehood for D.C.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-d-c/921442/296): > > > [@Statehood for D.C.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-d-c/921442/296): > > > > If there’s any issue that’s important to residents of DC, then it’ll also be important to all 535 members of Congress, because all of them are residents of DC (yes, yes, they’re officially residents of their individual states, but how much time do they spend there vs. in Washington?). They’re not elected by the residents of DC, but they do represent them. > > But they don’t, that’s just untrue. The represent their home states. If they represented DC, then why do no Republicans support DC statehood? Logically, that is the biggest win DC could have. Any equivalent win is one any state representative would desperately fight for. But Republicans in Congress don’t, because they don’t give a shit about DC, because they don’t represent it. And let’s be honest, the Democrats aren’t angling for DC statehood because they care about it, either. > [@Ludovic](#): > > > [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > > > If a territory or district has more population than an existing state, that’s a compelling argument that it should qualify for statehood. What’s good enough for Wyoming ought to be good enough for DC or Puerto Rico. Government should represent people, not some arbitrarily drawn map abstraction. > > > > I’d also support collapsing all of those tiny sparse Western states into one state with a population more comparable to “real” states, but that’s not happening, so statehood for DC and PR it must be. > > I agree with your whole statement except that I think major constitutional changes, in this case to a region, should have a supermajority consensus for it. So I wholeheartedly support statehood for DC for that reason. And I neither support nor oppose statehood for PR because there isn’t that consensus: instead it seems more like Brexit where there is only a slim majority either way. May i suggest that all of these posts would be better suited for the thread that’s actually about DC statehood, and not about the name > [@Statehood for D.C.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-d-c/921442/287): > > BTW being discussed in the name-of-the-new-state thread: This was never the reason that DC wasn’t made a state, and there’s no way you can demonstrate that DC residents’ votes count for more than anyone else’s. This opinion is so prima facie wrong that I don’t understand how it could be held in sincerity. OK, now, as for this… The membership of Congress is uniquely NONrepresentative of the interests of the people of the District, and that’s by design. The whole point is that the Federal … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/district-of-columbia-becomes-a-state-what-should-it-be-called/940553)._