@drmadjdsadjadi
The president typically is not considered a resident of DC but instead maintains his or her residency from his original state, just like our members of Congress. This is why the sitting president always goes back to their home state to vote.
@taotaoliu2229
Fun fact: The Pentagon isn’t located in Washington DC: it’s located in Arlington, Virginia.
@matthewvandenberg1056
This has been super cool to learn about as someone new to the DC area. The Maryland option occurred to me years ago as the best choice, but I hadn't considered MD might refuse to take DC back. It has a precedence given how VA handled their half and still feels like the best option. Given that the overall number of congress/senate members won't change, this seems to be the least intrusive option. Balance and compromise will be the only thing that can sell this (if it is even possible). DC as a state feels impossible with all the Red states that would need to ratify the amendment.
@IftinAbshir
Interesting fact, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands also all have non-voting Representatives in Congress and Puerto Rico has Congressional representation through a position called a Resident Commissioner who also does not have voting rights.
@nickygionis6609
As someone who's lived in DC my whole life, I'm glad you finally covered this topic. However, not being a state doesn't just mean DC residents have no representation in Congress. It also means that the federal government can basically repeal any local law they don't like that we voted for ourselves (This has happened a few times and is pretty fucked up tbh). We also don't have our own state prison system meaning that people who are convicted are moved across the entire country to federal prisons.
@AlistairZands
Citizens of Washington D.C. get to vote for mayor for the first time, and they immediately vote in a guy named Washington EDIT: For the people saying that this is incorrect, 9:48 in the video blatantly explains DC residents were able to vote on mayor and elected Walter Washington.
@MugiwaraNoLuffy417
Bro “No Taxation Without Representation” coming back 💀
@MrMac1138
A correction. Carl B Stokes was the first elected African American mayor of a major US city in Cleveland. Cleveland at that time had around 800,000 residents.
@lutherd
There would not be 436 representatives. The total is set by law at 435. The allotment would be reapportioned between the 51 states.
@seanhoude
Yes, the whole point of D.C. was so no state would host the nation's capital. Few people, aside from federally elected representatives and staff, were ever expected to live there.
@jimferris9447
I’m not necessarily opposed to adding additional states. DC is a stand-alone federal district for a specific, very good reason. Those reasons still and always will exist. The only thing I see as equitable for DC residents to get congressional representation is to identify land absolutely necessary for the operation of the nation, the peel back the residential area to Maryland, from which it came.
@torinjones3221
I'm not american so correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the whole point in DC not being a state was cause it was meant to be the neutral/apolitical administration area
@mr.gawsome6024
It would be interesting to see a similar video for Puerto Rico becoming a state too! Nice video as always :)
@barnettder
⚠️ CORRECTION - With all due respect to Walter Washington, the first African American mayor of a major US city was Carl Stokes, elected in Cleveland in 1967.
@vih-qq9pm
The whole point of a district for Federal activity is that it is not a state, that it is under the firm control of the federal government. It was supposed to house federal institutions and not much else. If it has become too populous to do this, then most of it should be handed back to Maryland. Keep enough to work as it was designed.
@VideoSage
The filibuster really is a confusing thing. A vote, to see if you should even vote, that doesnt have the same requirements, but harsher ones than the final vote.
@knelson5034
Except that neither the President, nor the VP, nor any member of Congress is a resident of Washington, DC. They are legally residents of their states of origin, and must maintain their residences in those states.
@Corndog4382
In retrospect it would’ve solved a lot of issues if they made it way smaller than the max 10x10 miles
@vincent412l7
How many times does he mention that they had no representation? When you move into the district with no representation, why would you expect representation?
@SethJulian23