D.C. votes overwhelmingly to become 51st state
Voters in the District of Columbia passed a measure on Tuesday in favor of petitioning Congress to become a state in the union.
79 percent of voters cast votes in favor of the ballot measure, which splits the district into a residential state with a small federal district in the middle of it for government buildings and monuments, as we have reported.
The newly approved measure had four parts:
agree that the District should be admitted to the Union as the State of New Columbia
approve of a Const
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