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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Scenarios Involving the US Presidential Line of Succession
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:43:42 -0700
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In article <vepagj$4ib$1@panix2.panix.com>,
 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

> William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From the Washington Post, in 2019:
> >
> >"The Post-U. Md. poll finds Marylanders oppose making the District a new 
> >county in their state, a plan called “retrocession,” by 57 percent to 36 
> >percent. There is little variation depending on political party, with 
> >majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents all opposed."
> 
> That's a different plan: that is the complete return of DC to MD which 
> will involve now state control over DC.  Nobody likes that plan, and it
> is disliked for reasons that go far beyond voting.
> --scott

The proposal I remember seeing was reducing the District to the Mall and 
the Federal Triangle (including all of the Congressional office 
buildings, the Supreme Court building and, of course, the White House 
which would be the only residence in the District). Everything else 
would be in Maryland.

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