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You got it backwards, it is really VA and MD that should be thankful for DC. Most of VA and MD would be backward hinterlands without the federal capital sandwiched between them. Placing DC here is the biggest government handout ever to a couple states that really don't have much else going for them.[/quote]

Yes. 100%[/quote]

It is an interesting thought. Weren’t Georgetown and Alexandria already well established cities and trading posts prior to DC?

The region would for sure be very different but I don’t think anyone can say what it would look like.[/quote]

[b]Georgetown and Alexandria were sleepy[/b] slave ports at the end of the road. What could have possibly become of them without the federal government?! Just look at rural VA, WV or Delmarva today. Some cute towns and farms but that's about it.[/quote]

I mean that could basically describe every populated place in the US at that point, [b]even NYC only had about 30,000 inhabitants[/b].  But yet sleepy ports would would turn into cities all over the country in the next 100 years.  That may well have happened in either of those two places.

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"Sleepy port" is also hugely different from rural West Virginia. DC is located on a major river; places like that tended to develop into cities. Something like the C&O to connect the navigable portion of the Potomac to places further inland would likely have happened either way. The first attempts at something similar were made before the Federal district was created. [/quote]

You really believe Alexandria or Georgetown could have developed into a world city to rival NYC or London? And the Potomac is hardly a major navigable river. You need to get out more.[/quote]

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