IIRC, the best part is that DC is where it is specifically because it was a bribe to get the slave states on board, since previously the federal government had been based in Philadelphia. So yeah, the US doesn’t even have the excuse of divine revelation for setting up the capital in a swamp, but because somehow that was enough to appease white slavers.
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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
DC is also a swamp, literally and figuratively
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
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