Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., this week introduced a bill returning Arlington and Alexandria to Washington, D.C., after the areas heavily backed a redistricting referendum in the state.

Arlington and Alexandria were historically part of Washington, D.C., until 1846 and the district itself was originally a square. The counties have, in recent decades, shifted from Republican strongholds to Democratic ones, largely due to the expansion of federal government jobs in the region.

“The Make DC Square Again Act restores the original ten-mile-square District and ends the artificial advantage Virginia Democrats have recently gained from all the federal bureaucrats moving into Virginia,” McCormick said in a statement.

The bill is unlikely to become law, but McCormick has also argued that the original return of the land to Virginia was not constitutional.

“The Constitution never authorized Congress to carve pieces out of the federal District and hand them back to a state,” he said. “Democrats have spent years manipulating maps and boundaries to rig elections."

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.