D.C. now larger than Wyoming, but still powerless in Congress

By Ezra Klein

Over e-mail, a reader directed my attention to an interesting tidbit from the Census: Washington, D.C., now has 601,723 residents. Wyoming has 563,626. And yet Wyoming has two senators and a congressman, all of whom have the full suite of powers and responsibilities that their position suggests. D.C.'s representatives, of course, remain powerless. This is also something that the 111th Congress should've fixed but didn't.

Correction: On Twitter, I implied that D.C. being more populous than Wyoming is a new phenomenon. As Tim Carney noted over e-mail, D.C. has long been more populous than Wyoming. He even made a graph: