Daily Passport - D.C. is legally treated like a state in more than 500 federal laws, and its 690,000 residents are subject to taxation — despite a lack of representation in Congress. These disadvantages haven’t gone unnoticed, and the majority of D.C. residents now overwhelmingly support statehood. During a 2016 referendum, 86% of locals voted in favor of statehood (and opposed the idea of retroceding back into Maryland). In 2020, the House even passed a D.C. statehood bill by a vote of 232 to 180, only for it to later die in the Senate. Such setbacks haven’t deterred D.C. statehood advocates, though. In the event that D.C. ultimately achieves statehood, a special 2-mile area would be carved out as a distinct federal capital zone, as defined in the Constitution.
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