# District of Columbia becomes a state--- what should it be called?

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/district-of-columbia-becomes-a-state-what-should-it-be-called/940553/138 "2021-04-26T12:33:39Z")

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Since the discussion of whether DC is already represented was clearly going to completely overtake this topic, I moved all the posts about it to the existing topic on whether DC should become a state.

> [@Statehood for D.C.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-d-c/921442/291):
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> Of course, the reason that DC wasn’t made a state in the first place is that it already has much more representation than any state does, and there’s no reason to make that imbalance even greater. I’ve never heard any of the proponents of statehood for DC offer a fix for that.

If some GD or P&E mod thinks they deserve their own topic, and don’t belong there, please move them again.

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