To try to address this a little seriously -- they never intended people to actually live in DC long-term in large numbers But they didn't intend for freedmen to come flooding into the city from throughout the Middle South to escape Jim Crow laws after the abolition of slaveryhttps://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1385261460570390529 …
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The founders also didn't foresee a world where the immediate proximity of the capital was considerably less impactful in terms of political influence than mastery of capital and largely lightly-populated land.
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Well, Hamilton definitely did call the first part of that, and additionally saw that having political busybodies in the commercial capital would be bad for business, but as usual none of the other Founders really tracked what he was up to until after they could do much about it.
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That's totally not true. Many of them live in Alexandria, Frederick, Silver Spring, and Bethesda, too.
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The big one is Potomac. All the McMansions are in Potomac.
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