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Could Long Island secede from N.Y. state and become a state?

Long Islanders have to pay taxes to financially support all those bastard children in the rest of NY. state and pay for all the things governor Cuomo wastes money on.

If  Washington D.C. can leave Maryland and become it's own state, why can't the Island do that too?

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  • RICK
    Lv 7
    3 days ago

    DC is not and never was part of Maryland

    Maryland donated the land before DC was built

  • 4 days ago

    The district of Columbia was created because there are some reasons why it is a good thing if the Capitol is not part of a state.

    There was a swamp between Maryland and Virginia that was drained and they built the capitol there.

  • Anonymous
    4 days ago

    The Constitution describes how to partition an existing state into a smaller one.

  • 4 days ago

    DC isn’t part of Maryland 

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  • 4 days ago

    I'm from Long Island and I support this.

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