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This wasn\u2019t always so, and, for somebody who\u2019s been visiting the area over a period of many years\u00a0\u2014 I myself have been coming here since the administration of James K. Polk \u2014 the change is palpable.<\/p>\n
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Moving to the Washington DC area was, for a long time, considered one of the unavoidable costs of political success, rather like moving to Albany from New York City, to Carson City from Las Vegas, or to Springfield from Chicago. \u00a0Washington was a sleepy and rather dull little southern town, almost unbearably hot and humid during the summer.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s finally taking on the trappings of a great world capital.<\/p>\n
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As a Republican, but also as an economic libertarian and an ardent federalist, I have profoundly conflicted feelings about this. \u00a0The concentration of wealth in the greater -DC area has followed the assumption of greater and greater economic and regulatory power by the federal government and its bureaucracies. \u00a0That isn\u2019t a good thing.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Driving south from Reagan National Airport, it\u2019s impossible to miss the number of large, new corporate buildings that line the way. \u00a0For a list of some of them, see here. \u00a0 By at least one measure, most of the ten richest counties in the United States are now in the greater Washington D.C. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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