D.C. REPRESENTATION: A Love Story

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This episode is all about voting in the federal capital we now call the District of Columbia. We talk about a movement to get voting rights that succeeded for a group of (then) D.C. residents 180 years ago, And about the petitions, committees, tea parties, bus trips and statements by Presidents over the years, and the reactions of Congress to them. Why Lincoln and Jefferson Davis found common ground on one issue about D.C. and neither got their wish. And about the rioting soldiers that may have spurred the whole idea of a federal city on a hill in the first place. Plus, about that guy who lived in a tree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.3	Today we'll talk about D.C. representation and the statehood debate, and we'll talk about a battle for
1:12.1	representation and a form of statehood that was successful for a group of D.C. residents 180 years ago,
1:21.5	one that two presidents supported, though at different times, both Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln
1:27.2	were opposed to.
1:28.8	We'll talk about a desire for democracy and a love of representation that didn't start in the 2020s,
1:35.1	didn't start in the 1960s or the 1980s, but existed since the founding of a capital city.
1:42.7	We'll talk about voting rights that were given, taken away, given back, and not fully restored.
1:48.3	We'll talk about changes that have occurred even since I first discussed this DC statehood or representation debate
1:56.5	when I first started the podcast in 2006.
1:59.7	I'll get into the pros and cons,
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