A new poll shows that a plurality of Americans would support making Washington, D.C. the 51st U.S. state if its residents voted in favor of the measure.
than the rest of the nation, on average, as 45.8 percent of D.C. residents are Black, 11.5 percent are Latinx, and only 37.3 percent are white, according to the latest Census statistics.
While the district has voted blue in every presidential race, not every elector from D.C. has voted for a Democrat. In 2000, a “faithless elector” — a person who is designated to serve in the Electoral College but whose vote doesn’t represent the will of their constituents —
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