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For years people living in Washington DC have been campaigning that the district should be granted full statehood. There are a lot of interesting arguments surrounding DC's status, but the debate got kicked into high gear when a bill proposing statehood passed the House of Representatives. In this video we discuss why some think DC should become a state, the current debate, and if it will actually get full approval.
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1 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/51
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_median_age
3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Washington,_D.C.#:~:text=According%20to%202018%20US%20Census,from%20two%20or%20more%20races.
4 - https://www.270towin.com/states/District_of_Columbia
5 - https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/9/18/20863026/dc-statehood-george-floyd-puerto-rico-statehood
6 - https://www.vox.com/2014/11/12/7173895/dc-statehood-new-columbia
7 - https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1276242497325367302
8 - https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/trump-says-washington-dc-will-never-be-a-state-because-of-all-the-democrats/
9 - https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1276285377595281408
10 - https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/opinions/dc-statehood-puerto-rico-democrats-priority-hemmer/index.html
