The District of Columbia sure cannot make a very convincing case for statehood in terms of size: It's 61.4 square miles.
It has trouble, too, with population–a mere 585,000 people live here.
And who wants a guy like Paul Strauss to move from Shadow Senator to Senator-In-The-Full-Light-Of-Day?
But there's a group of D.C.ers—very good high-school [...]