”In mid-1970s, DC activists pushed for a DC Voting Rights Amendment, to treat district ‘as though it were a state.’ It won support from staunch conservative senators like Goldwater of AZ and Thurmond of SC (under pressure from his Black constituents).” nytimes.com/2020/10/01/opi…
“‘Human rights begins at home, here in the nation’s capital,’ Strom Thurmond intoned as the Senate passed the D.C. Voting Rights Amendment in 1978.” nytimes.com/2020/10/01/opi…
“In the past 40 years the Republican Party has become unalterably opposed to D.C. statehood… Democrats, meanwhile, have wavered. Though many supported statehood in principle, they were unwilling to spend political capital to make it happen.” nytimes.com/2020/10/01/opi…
“DC, which has more people than Vermont or Wyoming and is gaining on Alaska, pays more in federal taxes than 21 states and its young people have served in every U.S. war of the past two centuries.” nytimes.com/2020/10/01/opi…
”For the more than 700,000 voteless residents of the District of Columbia, for Democrat’s own self-interest and for the sake of American democracy, they must make good on this promise if they secure the Senate and the White House in November.” nytimes.com/2020/10/01/opi…
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