The Reason Why DC Is Between Maryland and Virginia

[@jkkennedy8919]

I love learning the history of my city and hometown and the whole DMV area

[@nelsona779]

I love the rich history that we have here in Virginia.

[@br7nf-n573]

703 CRUIZ'N me too. My favorite part of the state is Jamestown (not Historic Jamestowne)

[@harpertesterman3776]

703 CRUIZ'N IKR LOL

[@Rushking20]

703 CRUIZ'N yeah love my state

[@kimjong-il6199]

Northern Virginia for life💛💛

[@moneysource2006]

Love my little city here! We live in such a beautiful state guys!

[@josephcap5590]

Another reason for the location of DC: the location was used as a bargaining tool towards southern states to help repay the debt from the war. Most northern states, specifically Massachusetts, we’re deeply in debt.

[@georgechlada4868]

Joseph Capraro did you get that from Hamilton too

[@ankkapommi]

And no one else was in the rooms where it happened~🎵

[@CB-ob5vh]

😂😂 I'm a Canadian reading Alex Hamilton, and I'm at the part where they just mentioned that and bursted out laughing. Let me guess the book is deeply biased? @georgechlada4868

[@Lorenzo-yk6hv]

I live in Silver spring, Maryland, love it.

[@isabellasandlin5244]

I live in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

[@VincitOmniaVeritas7]

I’ve spent one month in Silver Spring. It’s a great place.

[@abdulel4093]

Have there ever been any assassination or assassination attempts in the white house or oval office has anyone done a assassination in these two places es.

[@abdulel4093]

Has any one also attempted to assassinate any presidents in the white house has any political figure been assassinated in the white house or capital building or federal building have any presidents or political figures been assassinated in these places oval office to.

[@DONTXCRASH]

Expensive 😫

[@emperorpenguin4663]

Yep I lived there. Went to NOVA Annandale 1999. Got my first ticket there on Annandale turnpikes for not wearing a seatbelt, I forgot not intentionally

[@guysmiley3084]

My first job was at Mount Vernon. Grew up in Alexandria. Went to Fort Hunt high school.

[@beefymcskillet5601]

Rip fort hunt highschool

[@armymedic999]

he also grew hemp

[@hyenaedits3460]

www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-man-the-myth/george-washington-grew-hemp He didn't grow it for drug purposes.

[@giantasparagus]

they tried so hard to avoid saying that

[@shreddermcscumbag9755]

Branon Fontaine You realize no one smokes hemp? Hemp is in the Cannabis family, but has no THC. It’s ironic you call stoners stupid, when you have very little knowledge about this topic yourself.

[@branon6565]

Shredder McScumbag .....I know that THC is a Schedule I Drug because it cures nothing, it may help relieve symptoms of cancer and other shit in cancer patients, but it cures nothing. All this medical marijuana bullshit was created because assholes just wanna get high, that's it. "Uppers Downers All-Arounders 7th Edition"

[@ourDMTexperience]

I am sure George Washington grew plants for medical purposes. And i am also sure he grew them for industrial reasons too. Good for him that he did alot with his life instead of arguing about weed over a faceless & nameless communication system

[@rina8719]

They decided the location in The Room Where it Happened

[@dcgrrl321]

It’s a little surprising that video ends without explaining that Virginia withdrew their land contribution to DC. The result being a city that included only the land north of the Potomac River. When you look at a map of DC, the thing that jumps out is that it looks like it was intended to be a square- and it was. The name Federal City was the name of a local college probably until 1990 or so. It became the University of the District of Columbia.

[@valenn.romano]

Can someone explain me why Washington DC ain't in Washington state?

[@kappa2366]

because washington state wasnt a thing back then and maryland and virgina were one of the first 12 states and thats where he chose it

[@HitominekoFantasy]

Washington state was discovered and named longggg after the conception of dc (the district of columbia) when we decided to expand all the way to the west coast far outside of the original 13 colonies which were pretty much all of the US. So at the time DC was created DC was in the center of the US as we were only conposed of the states on the east coast and maryland and virginia are in the middle of the east coast. The real question is why is washington state called washington when we already named the federal city named that.

[@Larant88]

Because Washington D.C. is named after George Washington the father of Virginia. And first commander of the US Army.

[@RIGSDa244]

Arlington, VA native here

[@BBAERSTANCE1]

No one cares

[@moneysource2006]

Brian Baer I care

[@osky2558]

Where did the name Disctrict of Columbia come from? Was it really from Christopher Columbus?

[@sumtingwog1273]

osky2558 have you ever heard the British Columbia. That’s who we belonged to

[@civlyzed]

Yes, yes it was.

[@HitominekoFantasy]

It was because the original US colonies were refered to as Columbia and NOT America back then so it was just an old fashioned way of saying "district of America" and yes its a reference to Christopher Columbus. Matter of fact before 1814 the national anthem was a song called "hail columbia".

[@anihtgenga4096]

It was the former home of Juan Valdez (and his fuzzy little burro).

[@mickeywicked478]

I'm pretty sure the root of 'Columbia' is "column", like pillars (Boaz and Jachin). It's a Freemason thing...

[@PrincessKLS]

That was the main reason I used to believe DC shouldn't become a state but the area has changed over the centuries and parts of DC should be given statehood.

[@jamesmcgraw4584]

Why?

[@zbagz01]

@@jamesmcgraw4584 Because there are over 700,000 people living here now yet we have no voting representation in Congress. We pay more in Federal taxes per capita than every other state except one. We have more people than Vermont and Wyoming, yet each of those states have a Representative and two Senators. We elect a Representative to Congress but she has no voting power.

[@jamesmcgraw4584]

@@zbagz01 and you live in an area expressly defined as such a space. If anything the areas outside the federal district should be incorporated into the surrounding states.

[@zbagz01]

@@jamesmcgraw4584 Why?

[@jamesmcgraw4584]

@@zbagz01 Why should you be folded in to surrounding states?

[@THEGINCHER]

"Experimenting with a wide range of other crops"

[@mistervacation23]

I can still get a laugh from my buddies anytime we look at a diagram or a map.

[@statnoise5843]

Could we get captions added?

[@hyenaedits3460]

I might be going to Mount Vernon this summer!

[@adambaker4745]

Spotted Hyena did you ever go?

[@Deathwarrant909]

have you ever gone yet?

[@kaleb7418]

How was it

[@Deathwarrant909]

@@kaleb7418 do I know you know a person named caleb helms who goes to my school.

[@ManifestedSonofTheMostHigh23]

In memory of all of the ancestors the Black and Native that languished here.

[@StreetPeter]

Native Americans were also slave owners.

[@b-trucker7717]

Ohhh the irony 😂

[@NoCumBacksiFunny]

Imagine thinking blacks or native americans have contributed anything to the modern world

[@angiemaq]

Uhhh newsflash: America is the biggest shithole ever...And European settlers have done nothing throughout history but steal, kill and destroy. Everywhere you go you bring about destruction and contribute absolutely NOTHING but only take from those who actually have insight and skills. You "people" even managed to somehow steal God and take His word, His laws and His people and twist it up, whitewash it and ruin it...thus, America is a shithole....

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@angiemaq W

[@dereksalas8195]

What happened to all the full episodes

[@jasoncampos2933]

Sorry to break it to y’all but DC is in Maryland. You gotta cross the Potomac River to Get to Virginia.Remember The civil war? Yea Virginia was capital of the south.

[@TheMilpitasguy]

Southern Virginia was the capital of the south - Richmond. And TBH, northern and southern VA today are as different as night & day.

[@downsouthvanc4011]

The whole state of Virginia is the south so you right

[@gannon1462]

The whole state of Maryland is in the south. The Mason Dixon line is north of Maryland. Everything from Maryland down is the south. Of course if you want to determine the south by which states succeeded from the union, then that is a different way to look at it, but Maryland was definitely not a free state.

[@downsouthvanc4011]

Gannon Buckmaster Maryland Kentucky West Virginia and Missouri they was border states but they also join the union

[@downsouthvanc4011]

Jason Campos When it comes to the south Virginia don’t get a lot of credit when is due when a lot of stuff started in Virginia Matter of fact a lot of southern stuff started in Virginia

[@TheTechCguy]

Half in Virginia, half in Maryland. Makes sense.

[@44b4be]

From pg county, md

[@vipate]

I live in Fairfax, Virginia

[@Lorenzo-yk6hv]

Vip Tube Gaming nice. I live in Silver spring, Maryland

[@Rushking20]

Vip Tube Gaming Henrico

[@thecatonacouch9371]

I live in falls church.

[@moneysource2006]

I live in Chesterfield

[@hugglescake3057]

If District residents want representation, retrocession to Maryland is, probably, the only option.

[@chrismarsden6633]

Lets be honest, its in Maryland. Its on the Maryland side of the river.

[@sn07]

Yeah, but it wasn’t originally just in Maryland. Retrocession of 1846. Look it up.

[@JC-rl6ln]

sn07 Now it’s just Maryland land. There are proposals to reabsorb the non-federally owned parts of DC back into Maryland as a new county.

[@757CitiesReppa]

That’ll just make the bums

[@HotRodRodney25]

Dc is actually in Maryland it's just a district

[@bigperky2301]

Its in va

[@kdyy3]

@@bigperky2301 it’s not in Virginia it’s a federal district

[@gsocigars5794]

Beautiful land great choice for capital of the USA

[@gameexpert2011]

I'm from DC, but I don't understand why we handed the territory of Arlington and Alexandria back to Virginia.

[@OSTARAEB4]

Research Retrocession. The Residence Act of 1790 and the Organic Act of 1801.

[@arnoldstollar5375]

A great nation began here

[@henryjohnson7083]

Wrong….Philadelphia

[@michaeljarquin7160]

The room where it happened?

[@beefymcskillet5601]

I love that live 15 minutes from Alexandria and mount Vernon

[@ewvdl]

Wait what happened to Virginia's part of the square?

[@Sauce_E9]

Elijah van der Laan Virginia wanted it back and now it’s Arlington

[@OSTARAEB4]

Research "retrocession" in 1846 which will explain it.

[@HitominekoFantasy]

Virginia voted to take it back over a slavery dispute later on. DC was abolishing slavery inside the district and residents on the arlington and alexandria side threw a fit along with some other problems they had like lack of representation. Plus the maryland side was clearly growing faster as a city.

[@inspiringer6418]

in Bethesda Maryland

[@user-gp3tb8ho2b]

same

[@edwardjones9288]

I live in silver spring maryland

[@beambooi6431]

Same

[@Lorenzo-yk6hv]

Edward Jones same, silver spring is awesome

[@MetroBaltimoreDashcam]

I’m bel air maryland

[@seanpeters3690]

Silver Spring, MD is the first city east of the Mississippi I went to (not including the airport and Metro ride). I flew into DCA, took the metro to Silver Spring, and went to my hotel before exploring DC. I spent 8 nights in Silver Spring on my trip to DC. Silver Spring is a great city, and I want to go back.

[@vitaliyvyntu4566]

Thank You

[@bluemarshall6180]

No Cherry trees????? 🍒 did he really cut all those Cherry trees?

[@BobBarkerScientificHeretic]

"Smithsonian Gate." The biggest cover up in history, is the cover up of history.

[@nicklim7638]

What a great man

[@saintprim9645]

Nicholas Lim you know just enslaved millions and lynched us 🤷🏾‍♂️ great dude indeed

[@tupshinzhu6600]

Saint Prim I’m pretty sure George Washington didn’t lynch millions of Blacks during his lifetime

[@nicklim7638]

Bull shit, don't live in his country if you don't like it

[@jairousparker2311]

+Nicholas Lim, This isn't your country. You're an illegal guest. Please don't forget that.

[@nicklim7638]

What the fuck are you talking about lol, maybe you, but not me

[@heidimurphy4463]

Wheeling,oh

[@christopheb9221]

How much land did washington own and how much was sold for DC? who else owned the land and how much was paid for it? and did washington suggest this

[@DONTXCRASH]

Are presidential descendants wealthy?

[@downsouthvanc4011]

It’s all about that down south Virginia ya dig that

[@Anonymous18531]

Because Hamilton was in the room where it happened!

[@curtisdavis4264]

Mid-Atlantic Southern Traditions!

[@rodolfomeneses3120]

I love mount Vernon 👌🏻

[@cassiocm]

Something is wrong here, DC doesn't extend to the current VA side as shown in this video

[@karlwolff6389]

cassmanio I believe that the union gave away the Virginia side during the civil war because Virginia was part of the confederacy

[@ixlnxs]

The video doesn't explain why that part was given back later, nor does it talk about what other options there were to locate a capital city.

[@ostaraeb4293]

Due to Retrocession.

[@Larant88]

Look at some major land marks in Washington. A lot of them have a Virginia address. Arlington cemetery, the Pentagon etc... Don't let these clowns fool you.

[@jkkennedy8919]

@@Larant88 those are not Dc land marks lol the pentagon and Arlington cemetery are in Arlington Virginia not DC lol DC is closer to MD than VA you have to cross the Potomac to get to VA while i can just walk across the street from my house in MD and be in DC all 68 square miles of DC is on MD land none of DC is in VA

[@xFENRISx]

Why does DC no longer have the Virginia bit of the square?

[@Drknnja]

There was no federal development in the land that VA seeded. So a request was made to return it to VA.

[@kabouterwesley83]

@@Drknnja the Pentagon: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@Drknnja]

@@kabouterwesley83 Virginia portion was returned in March 1847.

[@OSTARAEB4]

Research Retrocession.

[@rickcross5377]

Montgomery County native

[@robograham12]

And the millions of citizens who reside in this city still do not have proper representation in the US Congress. Taxation without Representation.

[@ostaraeb4293]

There aren't "millions" in population in the District of Columbia. It has about 750,000.

[@ashleynicole9423]

OSTARAEB4 When you count the several hundred thousand people who commute into the District every day from Maryland and Virginia, it’s a million plus.

[@OSTARAEB4]

@@ashleynicole9423 Yes, you're correct but those commuters don't have representation because they don't actually live in the District as per RoboGraham's comment.

[@kabouterwesley83]

@@OSTARAEB4 so they DO have representation?

[@W_L4VA]

Of course Virginia pulled out of the deal and Washington today is only the Maryland part. Since Maryland is better

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

Did George Washington realize that the new city would become an enchanted holy city that could make people's dreams come true? If you are down and out, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to give you money. If you think that other people are down and out, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to give money to them. If you need money to keep your solar panel business afloat, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to give you money, or to buy your panels, or to force other Americans to buy your panels. If you think that certain people have too much money, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to take some of it away from them. If you are concerned with how the ocean levels are rising, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to make the levels stop rising. And so much more--anything that you can think of!

[@NatureShy]

That's great! We should be encouraging people to switch to solar energy. Temperatures are rising because of us. If our taxes go towards that, then wonderful! :D I love our planet too much to see it get destroyed.

[@zapfanzapfan]

If you own a company that builds overpriced airplanes, don't be shy about going to Congress to ask for a trillion dollars...

[@Ersiiin]

if you are a weapon manifacturer you can ask Congress to invade other countries. if you own an oil company you can ask Congress to bomb other countries.

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

Ersin Avseren -- This is why we need to elect the right people to office. This is why we need universal education. In order to have a functioning democracy, the voters must be educated and aware of the issues. If people are ignorant and racist, they will elect someone like Trump, and our democracy will rapidly disappear. Our government will be taken over by the Corporate Right, war mongers, and anti-woman racists.

[@ixlnxs]

+GregoryTheGr8ster, Then why are you broke?

[@jasoncampos2933]

Dc is in Maryland territory not Virginia

[@Rushking20]

Jason Campos y’all keep it well keep the pentagon

[@757CitiesReppa]

🤔 Maryland is Virginia’s territory not Maryland’s🤪

[@russfrancis4220]

I like chocolate milk!

[@ambergerhelper7852]

I like potatoes.

[@mickeywicked478]

White milk matters.

[@DONTXCRASH]

I argue with dc ppl saying they’re from md

[@kdyy3]

No dc person say’s they from md

[@DONTXCRASH]

@@kdyy3 ik I am dc is apart of md in my eyes

[@Solaris_Paradox]

DC is just apart of Maryland.

[@danieladshead9867]

Good old GW

[@DavidS22003]

its to bad the white house cant be built next to the playboy mansion

[@gumendap]

Oh...

[@therainbowrhapsody3455]

Washington DC is a part of Maryland.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Virginia named after Elizabeth the 1st the vigin queen of England

[@jw-mr7xz]

where did he get all that money

[@tmanepic]

But Washington doesn't encompass any land across the Potomac, it is still all Virginia.

[@georgechlada4868]

tmanepic it was

[@fironfiron8843]

You are reading the map wrong, it is situated mostly in Maryland side than Virginia side. You have to cross Potomac to access Virginia.

[@tmanepic]

Public Health And Safety Co take a look at the map in the video, then take a look at the map in present day, then tell me how I'm reading it wrong.

[@fironfiron8843]

then you should have specified man.

[@RomilCPatel]

The area south of the Potomac was given back to Virginia because people in the federal district didn’t have representation in Congress You can check the Wikipedia page called District of Columbia retrocession

[@-MrGoogle]

lies

[@Hi.Im.Chucky]

Hemp!

[@Vinny52300]

My home!

[@AE-vu3nt]

USA, USA, USA!!!

[@mickeywicked478]

"patriot"='pat'(father)+'riot'(debauchery)...you literally practice debauchery of the Father in AMARUCA, Land of the Plumed Serpent!

[@rabbidlobo]

I always felt like New York City should have been the nations capital.

[@YlO414]

Philadelphia has a much better option is used to be the capital

[@rabbidlobo]

@@YlO414 Yes it was, but NYC is world renowned and has a deeper history than Philadelphia. I've always wanted to see Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, but New York has better and more options for historic places.

[@kabouterwesley83]

The problem with appointing an existing city as capital, is that this city should then have been separate from its state. New York didn't want to loose New York City and Pennsylvania didn't want to loose Philadelphia.

[@conceited0482]

BALTIMORE is the KING of the south💯

[@jaginaboxftype1945]

Conceited 0 huh?

[@ripplewavess]

Nah, Florida is the king of the South

[@ikarikakarot]

Pretty sure Baltimore is northern

[@YOTSUBA_desu]

E.J. Manghram Geographically it’s debatable (mason dixie vs who actually seceded) but culturally it definitely isn’t southern anymore

[@ron.247]

@@ikarikakarot Baltimore is considered the South technically.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Washington DC is more maryland than Virginia

[@علي-ش7ث8ب]

united states of america is the best piece of property in history!

[@DcDiva521]

5th generation Washingtonian

[@Aymiikeeganmelb]

Drugs booze and transportation ... ??

[@tyronebrown2246]

Aymii keegan

[@downsouthvanc4011]

Look Virginia don’t claim DC or Maryland,we consider us as the south down here because we are the Capital of the confederacy,so please stop saying DMV we don’t know nothing about DC or Maryland is very annoying mayne

[@757CitiesReppa]

You that desperate, huh? Just rep Carolina where YOUR’ RE from.

[@Larant88]

Maryland is the South too

[@downsouthvanc4011]

@@757CitiesReppa desperate never born and raised downtown Newport News my folks from the country Franklin, Boykins, Smithfield,Suffolk but Virginia is just like North Carolina and South Carolina so if you can't see that something is wrong with you for real and you can't be from Virginia

[@downsouthvanc4011]

@@Larant88 it just Maryland don't have that southern feel like Virginia North Carolina or South Carolina or Kentucky

[@downsouthvanc4011]

@@Larant88 like where I live we really don't have nothing but a Piggly Wiggly grocery store at ABC Store in Church's Chicken