Yeah, I admit, I could have come up with a better flag than that, but it still looks pretty cool.
[stage whisper] Arse, shutup! When you say mean things about Canadians they call the yeti mafia and they come and eat you.
Who wouldn't?
The District of Columbia was formed from portions of two states, Maryland and Virginia. Since no one in their right mind wanted to use Virginia, their portion was retroceded not long before the Civil War. Every portion of Washington, DC currently extant (including the river, since technically Maryland owns all of the river right to the south bank) came from Maryland. Its land is surrounded on all sides by Maryland or the Potomac. It is OURS. Northern Virginia is, of course, in DC's sphere of influence/metro area and thus is also ours. I think we should annex the **** out of them, personally. Because Virginia sucks.
And yeah, they still don't have a voting representative. Eleanor Holmes Norton is all they have going for them in Congress. Some of them want to become a state, which isn't going to happen. And they need to stop whining, because Maryland offered to take those non-federal-property portions (I mean the places not actually occupied by monuments and offices, mostly residential areas) back (which would have given them legislative representation through Maryland) and they said no.
Yeah, you guys were named for some British noble. I'd rather be named for a French broad than that*. And I'd like to point out that I wasn't talking about entries on the disambiguation page, but continents with places named for you. Most of the places on that page are named for the same British dude. Including the Antarctica one, which would've been pretty cool if not for that.
*Please don't point out that we were a proprietary colony, have a flag and seal based on the proprietor's coat of arms, a major city named for his title, multiple counties named for him and his descendants, etc.
