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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5135632" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>DC could also be returned to Maryland.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocession[/URL]</p><p></p><p>"The retrocession of the District of Columbia refers to both past and proposed acts of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">federal government of the United States</a> for the purpose of creating its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_district" target="_blank">federal district</a> for the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_capital" target="_blank">national capital</a> of the United States, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." target="_blank">City of Washington</a>.<strong> The land was originally ceded to the federal government by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" target="_blank">Virginia</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland" target="_blank">Maryland</a> in 1790. After moving through various stages of federal and state approval, the Virginia portion was eventually returned in March 1847. The Maryland portion still constitutes the District of Columbia today</strong>, but some have proposed retroceding it, in part or in whole, to address issues related to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_voting_rights" target="_blank">voting rights of residents of the District of Columbia</a>."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5135632, member: 48469"] DC could also be returned to Maryland. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocession[/URL] "The retrocession of the District of Columbia refers to both past and proposed acts of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States']federal government of the United States[/URL] for the purpose of creating its [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_district']federal district[/URL] for the new [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_capital']national capital[/URL] of the United States, the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.']City of Washington[/URL].[B] The land was originally ceded to the federal government by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia']Virginia[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland']Maryland[/URL] in 1790. After moving through various stages of federal and state approval, the Virginia portion was eventually returned in March 1847. The Maryland portion still constitutes the District of Columbia today[/B], but some have proposed retroceding it, in part or in whole, to address issues related to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_voting_rights']voting rights of residents of the District of Columbia[/URL]." [/QUOTE]
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