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> before two World Wars made Washington the capital of the free world More like before FDR's massive expansion of the federal government. Today, it's hard to

> before two World Wars made Washington the capital of the free world More like before FDR's massive expansion of the federal government. Today, it's hard to believe how unimportant the federal government was in most areas of peoples lives.

qaq 7y ago
As a result top 5 counties by median household income are around DC.
- esoterica 7y ago
  That's largely due to the arbitrary way county lines are drawn. Parts of San Francisco and Manhattan are far wealthier than the DC suburbs, but they share a county with lots of poor people who drag the median household income down.
  - rolltiide 7y ago
    suburbs don't bother with rent control and public housing, repurposing cities to take 100% of the criticism and costs for it. it also works
  - qaq 7y ago
    there is plenty of subsidized housing in Fairfax county it still #2.
TallGuyShort 7y ago
It's still fairly unimportant, just unavoidable.