![]() ![]() “The image is kind of fantastical but also intriguing.” “They imagined they would move the real buildings themselves,” says Adam Arenson, a historian at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, and author of The Great Heart of the Republic: St. ![]() An absurd premise, perhaps, but one that was given a close look in the years after the U.S. Merits aside, unspoken by these opponents is a 160-year-old idea: Disassemble the Capitol building, the White House and the rest of the district’s government buildings and ship the entire headquarters of the federal government to the middle of the country. One of the consistent objections raised by the legislation’s opponents is that the residents of D.C. Senate is unclear, though its prospects for passage are mixed, at best. statehood has gone in the more than 200 years of its existence. House of Representatives will likely pass legislation today calling for the District of Columbia to become the 51st state. ![]()
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