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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Scenarios Involving the US Presidential Line of
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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:08:28 -0400
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Chris Buckley wrote:
> On 2024-10-11, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2024 9:28 AM, William Hyde wrote:
>>>> Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>> I also suspect a new District of Columbia will be established,
>>>>> probably in the middle of the country. Nothing like high mountains and
>>>>> a thousand miles or two of land to make a government feel secure.
>>>>
>>>> Without, one hopes, disenfranchising a million Americans.
>>>>
>>> You can't be disenfranchised if you don't have the ability to vote in
>>> the first place.  ;)
>>
>> As I understand it a number of people in Georgetown and other
>> settlements in what became DC were rather unhappy with their loss of
>> voting rights.
>>
>>
>> When I lived in DC someone published a few letters from the time as part
>> of the movement to enfranchise the residents of DC.
> 
> The issue in DC has not been about being able to vote for a long time.

It certainly was when I lived there.

> Republicans have been floating plans to enfranchise DC residents for
> decades,

Only plans that will never come to fruition.



  but the local Democrats have been saying "no, we don't want
> to vote that much."  The Republican plans are to join DC and Maryland
> in some form, perhaps making the remaining DC part of Maryland 

Maryland doesn't want them.  That's what makes the plan so perfect for 
the Republicans. It won't happen but they can say that they are doing 
something.




William Hyde