Why isn't Washington, D.C. a state? It started with a drunken mob.
The movement for D.C. statehood just won a historic vote. Here's why Washingtonians have fought for representation for more than 200 years. In the 1760s, furious American colonists protested against “taxation without representation”—British-imposed taxes that didn’t come with any rights of …
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