# Statehood for D.C.?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 24, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-d-c/921442 "2020-09-24T21:15:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-d-c/921442/302 "2021-04-25T18:04:03Z")

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> [@District of Columbia becomes a state--- what should it be called?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/district-of-columbia-becomes-a-state-what-should-it-be-called/940553/110):
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> 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.
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> 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.

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