I never said anything about where the statehouse is. Baltimore and the DC suburbs are the power centers... If you read it like that, that is weird.

Edit: Let me clarify even further: think for a second if I thought the state house was in Baltimore, then adding DC to Maryland wouldn't "take power from politicians in Baltimore" if I meant that as "take power from the state house" because the the statehouse wouldn't move if you retroceed DC. So I really don't know how you got that or lots of up votes for it other than just the reflexive I don't think reality downvote, this person makes him look bad upvote stupidity of the mob.

MD has conservative chunks largely starting in Frederick parts of Carrol and running west and the Eastern shore. The rest is liberal with the population centers really being MoCo/PG and Baltimore. Thus much of MD politically is the push-pull between the DC part which has more wealth and the Baltimore part. If DC becomes part of MD that balance is thrown off and therefore a large chunk of people in MD loose power and therefore selfishly don't want it.

I just want people in DC to have representation in congress, good schools, and sane laws. MD does all of those things where DC fails again and again. MD has functioning crime labs. MD has tickets that get enforced. Removing DC as a separate thing simplifies the political calculations for the region for entities like WMATA. It is a huge win for everyone but those in power today. I have never heard a real argument against it that hurts average people (not including tax codes or random policies helping one person over another). DC might rank over MD in some metrics but that is down to it being urban (as are some of the things that it is bad at). DC has been poorly managed for at least the 40+ years I have been watching. It could do so much better than it has done. As some one born here it makes me sad.