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The nation's capitol has never been neutral, ever.
Thinking the Capitol is liberal is pretty crazy, considering the current Republican dominance in all 3 of our government's branches.
Why in the world would you even want to tear all that apart to move it somewhere else? That's really Looney Tunes and Silly Symphones territory.
Neutrality has no part in our democracy; it is all entirely based on the fact that different people will have different thoughts. Whenever there is a difference, there is a conflict. The founding fathers recognized that human fact, and planned a system that allowed our differences to be settled by peaceful, legalized compromise.
Their system still works most of the time. It's only when one side wants everything, and will not settle for just some, that a struggle ensues.
So the nations capital where close to half the population is on welfare, and welfare provides more than any welfare state country in europe. What a glorious capital
n D.C., a mother with two children under the age of five who participates in six major welfare programs — Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or food stamps), housing assistance, home energy assistance, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and free commodities) would receive a benefits package worth $34,963 per year
The question is absurd. Plus the choices the OP gives would be amusing were they not so loaded from the start.
First, any metropolitan area, no matter where in the world it is, will be more liberal than the surrounding countryside. This goes for even smaller metro area. The bigger the metro area, the more liberal it's likely to be. It's not a perfect if-then straight-line relationship, but the correlation tends to run strongly in that direction.
Second, governments and their employees, by the very nature of things, tend to see government as society's way of protecting itself from dangerous, capricious chaos; plus protecting the public (and individuals) from willfully predatory or negligent people and groups.
Third, capital cities, all other things being equal, will likely have higher education attainment rates than non-capital cities of similar size. That's because aside from business and maybe the STEM fields, education itself tends to have a liberalizing effect on the students who enroll in these majors, especially those who pursue post-graduate degrees. This is just as true for public policy and administration positions as for any other major/background.
That means even if we relocated the US capital to some out of the way small town like Broken Bow, NE or Grenada, MS, it's still going to end up just as liberal as the Washington, DC area is now.
Considering the first choice is moving the capital to Texas...the capital of Texas--Austin--is already quite liberal, so it's likely a national capital in Texas would turn liberal in short order.
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Considering the first choice is moving the capital to Texas...the capital of Texas--Austin--is already quite liberal, so it's likely a national capital in Texas would turn liberal in short order.
Locating the national capital even in Lufkin or Midland or Amarillo would turn those areas liberal in short order too - and as said, it would even turn a small Mississippi town liberal too were it relocated there.
Locating the national capital even in Lufkin or Midland or Amarillo would turn those areas liberal in short order too - and as said, it would even turn a small Mississippi town liberal too were it relocated there.
If you took all the democrat government workers with you I guess but I dont hate DC just because its so liberal, I hate it because its such a god awful city
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Liberals own DC and Trump only won 4% in the DC swamp. Should be capitol be moved or at least Republicans have the option of telecommuting from a safer locale?
You failed to provide the "Leave it where it is" option, remember those that serve did so voluntarily....
Why ruin another, perfectly good city by putting a bunch more politicians and lobbyists in it? Of course there is always Detroit-housing is a whole lot cheaper and even politicians couldn't make it much worse.
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