D.C. residents have enough trouble getting people outside the city to take our pleas for fair legislative representation seriously. But the struggle may be more difficult than we ever feared. It seems we’ve been going about this whole campaign all wrong. We’ve been appealing to the rest of the country’s sense of fairness when we should have been trying to convince them that we’re not just a figment of their high school civics teachers’ collective imaginations. Because not only are we not on anyone’s radar, we’re apparently not even on their maps.

Quote of the Week

Waiting to deplane after a flight from Chicago to D.C. at National Airport:

Young Midwestern Man: “So, is this airport in D.C., or is it in Virginia?”
Female College Student: “I’m not exactly sure…because D.C. doesn’t really exist.”
Young Midwestern Man: “Yeah, that’s true.”

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