1/x When Mayor Bowser took office she set up yet another commission to propose statehood for DC. I was one of the pointy headed academic nerds appointed to the commission to annoyingly begin every sentence with “well actually” every time a proposal came up.
2/x The idea for DC statehood was to go with the so called Tennessee model, in which DC would write a constitution, have its people vote on it, send it to Congress to adopt it and voila. As part of the project DC came up with a map. It looks like this: 
3/x The plan behind the map was to draw lines around the part of dc containing the White House, and the capital and exclude them from the new dc state because, interestingly, much of that area contains tons of government buildings but virtually no residences or private buildings
4/x So the plan was to say: look you can have this area where the federal government has a new federal district and the new state had zero control over it. Funny thing is that’s what’s happening right now. The federal government is drawing a blockade pretty much around that area.
5/x Couple more things: for a while DC even played with a proposed name for the new state that would keep the DC abbreviation: Douglass Commonwealth - after Frederick Douglass, a long time DC resident.
6/x Anyway if you’re bored here’s a document explaining the map: statehood.dc.gov/sites/default/…
7/7 And here’s the proposed new constitution, which is patterned after the US constitution and includes a Bill of rights, including a right to bear arms. statehood.dc.gov/sites/default/…
