Republicans Go Berserk on House Floor after Rep. Calls out Their Racist Arguments on D.C. Statehood

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68. Yep! And....

The biggest manipulation to affect the Senate happened during Benjamin Harrison's presidency in 1889. SIX states were added to the Union in less than a year:

North Dakota and South Dakota (which were deliberately split to make 2 states with 4 Republican Senators);
Washington and Montana (those 4 states were all admitted in about a week of time)

Idaho and Wyoming (admitted about a week apart in 1890.)

That fact is really amazing to me. Harrison was elected President in 1888 after losing the popular vote to Cleveland. To his credit, he DID try to pass some civil rights laws to help African-Americans. The Republicans still had a shred of their former idealism, 25 years after the Civil War. But the fact that a popular vote loser was still able to oversee the addition of SIX states is amazing to me.