D.C. Statehood

[John Noble]

At 2:21 PM -0400 10/23/00, Paul Finkelman wrote:
>I am agnostic on the need for two more Senators, but would probably prefer
>two
>Democrats to two Republicans; but that is hardly the issue, since no one
>would
>be foolish enough to predict that any state would maintain its political
>views
>forever.  I suspect with statehood, ro some sort of full local control and
>national representation,  we would see the nature of DC change, both
>politically and economically.

There is an interesting article in today's Washington Post about the
enfranchisement of the black residents of Washington after the Civil War --
which was accomplished by over-riding Andrew Johnson's veto precisely
because they were reliably Republican voters. http://www.washingtonpost.com

John Noble