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Lots of Eastern Europeans when I lived there in Vancouver, not BC. Including a guy who was a captain in the Russian army before moving to the states.

 

Not according to Jeep.

Jeep forgets Michigan's U.P. in 'Reunited States' Super Bowl ad

 

DC statehood is seen as a bulwark to shore up the Democratic majority. Yes it is nearly unprecedented to think in terms of one particular party needing to strengthen its majority in order to save representative democracy. I can’t think of another time since Reconstruction where that has been the case. I agree that it is an extremely bold claim.

However, that must be weighed against the fact that the Republicans have become an anti-democratic (small d), anti-majoritarian party in thrall to an ever-tightening constituency that is agitating for a white-controlled ethno-nationalist nation, with a shabby veneer of evangelical Christianity (or at least the cultural trappings of it) painted on the surface.

@Alma I won’t ask you to specifically name where you live, because you are entitled to your privacy. And if you live in a blue part of the country, I am sure you see examples of overreach and despicable treatment of conservatives that don’t really register in my lived experience. I willingly concede that.

But as for me, from the age of 2 til the present I’ve lived places that have been majority to overwhelmingly white, almost all in the Southern Bible Belt. The traditionalists you fret about being “canceled” have run things everywhere I’ve lived, and usually with the subtlety of Boss Hogg. You want to talk unpopular? Try speaking up for progressive ideas when you live in a county that went 70-30 for Trump, with family roots in counties that gave him 78-80 percent. The Amish wish they could do such an effective job of shunning.

Trump supporters are sometimes reluctant to “show their colors” in big cities because they are afraid of some nebulous cancel culture. I wouldn’t dream of putting a sticker for a Democrat on my car because I’d expect property damage at the least and to be shot in the parking lot at worst.

We are past the moment of “both sides.”

 

I saw this on "How the States got their Shapes."

We have North and South Dakota because at the time of their admission (1886), Congress had figured out that huge states are not good and are very difficult to govern. So, they allotted a specific number of degrees of latitude per state, which forced the Dakota Territory to be split into two states. If you notice, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas are equal in depth because of this rule. And that's why there's that little sliver of Oklahoma above the Texas Panhandle, because Kansas could extend only so far South from the Nebraska border.

 

I know Virginia got the land back in 1847. And I know that the addition of states to the Union were frequently the results of compromises. Before the Civil War these compromises were generally about slavery. Alaska and Hawaii had to wait to become states because Southern legislators thought that those states, when admitted, would elect Senators who would support Civil Rights legislation. But to say the Founding Fathers thought the residents of Washington would rotate through every few years is just false. Their were five political entitles within the boundaries at the time the District was created.

The shopkeepers of the Oklahoma panhandle currently have Senate representation. I believe that the good citizens of Washington D.C. should also.

 

Aren’t you the Russian Alex Jones?

 

Probably as soon as the pandemic is over, Biden's gonna do these big rallies all over the country.

 

She hates the cold. I would pick New Zeland.

 

This isn't difficult. If a citizen has the right to vote, then they should be allowed to exercise that right to vote, without any obstacles put in their way stemming from fear and conspiracy-laden ideas about voter fraud.

 

You’re missing his/her point. The United States is morally and ethically bankrupt and anything to does is hypocritical to its stated principles. Those principles are merely illusory and designed to lull opponents into thinking the US isn’t a conqueror looking to expand its territory or oppress indigenous people all over the world. Unfortunately the US failed to do this in the moment of its greatest opportunity. Japan and West Germany should have been states 49 & 50.