The polling on the prohibition of gay marriage and the support for incumbent senator George Allen proves what we’ve always known — Northern Virginia is becoming less and less like the rest of the state. But what to do about the polarization? Easy. Secession.

D.C. Metblogs head honcho Tom Bridge, himself a Virginian, today proposed giving the District back the Virginia lands (and then some) that originally formed part of the city but were retroceded to the commonwealth in 1847. He writes:

…perhaps it’s time that Arlington, Fairfax and Alexandria severed ties with the rest of the state that uses it only for tax revenue. Perhaps it’s time that these three districts join with the District at large to form a 51st state. With 5 million people in the greater DC area, this new state would be larger than Wyoming, Alabama, North Dakota and other states in population, and, due to DC and Northern Virginia’s unique position in the economy as the seat of government, the site of a significant number of beltway bandit contractors, and several large international commerce hubs, the state could have an economy to rival the largest state economies.

Bridge wasn’t the only one making this call, though. Today on a Post online chat WTOP political analyst Mark Plotkin tossed around the idea himself:

Arlington, Va.: The Post’s poll numbers were amazing! Given the split in opinions and other issues between Northern VA and the rest of the state, do you see secession coming in the near future?

Mark Plotkin: Secession, that’s a provacative concept. I’ll have to give that some play. Northern Virginia is becoming less like the rest of Virginia. It casts one third of the state’s votes. George Allen lives in Northern Virginia, as does Webb. It’ll be interesting to see if Webb can really pile up huge margins here.

A little extreme a proposal for sure, but if it happens, it will finally put to rest the simmering battle between the District’s “We’re cool ’cause we live in the city” urbanites and NoVA’s “Screw that, we’re just as cool, and without the crime” residents. Finally, we’ll all get to pick on Maryland together.