Isn't it just gerrymandering? The same thing Democrats accuse Republicans of all the time?
Nope. There are 700,000 citizens that live in DC proper. That's 700,000 Americans who have no representation in the senate and a non voting representative in the house. That doesn't seem right to me, the whole taxation without representation. I've heard that somewhere before....
From Wiki: The
U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the district's population was 705,749 as of July 2019, an increase of more than 100,000 people since the
2010 United States Census.
[11] This continues a growth trend since 2000, following a half-century of population decline.
[110] The city was the
24th most populous place in the United States as of 2010.
[111] According to data from 2010, commuters from the suburbs increase the district's daytime population to over a million.
[112] If the district were a state it would rank
49th in population, ahead of
Vermont and
Wyoming.
[113]
The
Washington Metropolitan Area, which includes the district and surrounding suburbs, is the
sixth-largest metropolitan area in the United States with an estimated six million residents in 2014.
[114] When the Washington area is included with
Baltimore and its suburbs, the
Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area had a population exceeding 9.6 million residents in 2016, the
fourth-largest combined statistical area in the country.
[115]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Republicans admit they gerrymander, it's the only way they can stay in power. Here's a shocking read on what they've done.
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/30/the-decade-republicans-hijacked-our-democracy-via-gerrymandering/
Some "highlights" include:
"As this decade comes to a close,
59 million Americans live in a state where one or both chambers of the state legislature is controlled by the party that got fewer votes in the 2018 election.
In Wisconsin in 2018, voters elected a Democratic U.S. senator, defeated an incumbent Republican governor, picked Democrats for every statewide office, and favored Democratic candidates for the state assembly by more than 200,000 ballots.
Republicans nevertheless controlled more than 63 percent of the seats..."
"White men make up a smaller slice of the American electorate with each election. Yet they maintain outsized power in Congress and state legislatures. A new decade dawns with a crisis of representation that threatens the integrity of representative democracy itself..."
