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

In My Humble Opinion
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Franklin.
Because Old Ben deserves it.

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The state of Keanu. Whoa!

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In this time of texting, tweeting, and Gram-ing, everything gets shortened. Call it DisCol. Better yet, Discord. That’s what dominates the news from DC, anyway.

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North Virginia?

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Then you’ll have Footbal Team Football Team.

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Let’s use the full name: Grover Washington Jr.

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Non-American here. Is this likely to happen?

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There was already a State named Franklin…it didn’t work out so well.

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Not really. I can’t see how. It would need to be a unanimous vote by the Dems in the Senate, plus ten Republicans to avoid the filibuster. (Unless I’m missing something.)

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My friends, there is already a city named Columbia in Maryland, about 35 miles from DC. “Columbia” is taken.

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Brian.

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You win the thread. The postal abbreviation SM hasn’t been taken yet, so this is a shoo-in.

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Obviously it should be The Deep state. Duh.

I guess the Sate of Bigly could be a consideration.

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My modest proposal:

The Big Sleazy

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And there are two Kansas Citys literally adjacent to one another. There are weirder situations.

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Covfefe

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Nah, I don’t wanna see the individual who originated that term get any more enshrinement in history.

I’d be OK with naming a sewer treatment plant “Covfefe Waste Dump” or whatever, though.

On topic, I think anything “X Commonwealth” is too much of a mouthful. No other state gets such a tag appended to its name. It’d get shortened to just plain “Douglass” anyway … and that is ultimately what I guess I’d pick, though I appreciate the effort to include the full “DC” initials.

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I know that they are technically two different cities, due to being in two different states. But I always thought they were conceptually and culturally a single city. Back when I crossed the line, the people I was with talked about “crossing to the Kansas side,” not acting like we were going to a different city.

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Thanks.

Does the population of DC want it? If the politicians want it to happen why don’t they angle to have a referendum in DC on it? That might make opposition more tricky.

Edit: sorry this is a hijack. No worries if nobody answers. UNLESS, I suggest that they can ask the naming question in said referendum.

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They’ve had one before:

It had 86% approval at that time. If I understand correctly, the DC council then formally asked it to be considered by Congress, and the Democratically controlled House passed it back in 2018. McConnel refused to bring it up in the Senate, but now the Democratically controlled Senate has allowed it.

I’m not sure how useful another referendum would be. I do suspect that support has only grown larger since 2016. But I’m not sure that such a referendum would put any more pressure on Republican Senators, and at least 10 need to agree. It’s not like the people of DC can do anything to punish those Senators if they don’t listen.

Then again, I’m not a politician, nor do I live in DC.