Thought Experiment: Relocating the State Capital to Detroit

[Detroitnerd]

If it's good enough for the U.K., France, Italy, China, Japan, and pretty much every other country in the world, why not? Even [[West) Germany rushed to move its capital from Bonn to Berlin.

Oh, I forgot. The perpetual infusion of money that comes with running a capital or a state university is the sacred entitlement of the boonies, so lardheaded, regressive, racist outlanders get subsidized -- and then complain about all them blacks in the city eatin' up THEIR tax dollars!

[coracle]

If it's good enough for the U.K., France, Italy, China, Japan, and pretty much every other country in the world, why not? Even [[West) Germany rushed to move its capital from Bonn to Berlin.

Oh, I forgot. The perpetual infusion of money that comes with running a capital or a state university is the sacred entitlement of the boonies, so lardheaded, regressive, racist outlanders get subsidized

You got it right Go wipe the spittle up from your childish apoplectic hate rant and get real. Then ask yourself why any one would want their money being handled by an unstable person like youself.

[Detroitnerd]

You got it right Go wipe the spittle up from your childish apoplectic hate rant and get real. Then ask yourself why any one would want their money being handled by an unstable person like youself.

Just yankin' you and Hermod's chain. Sorry, we can't all be suburban triumphalists!

[Hermod]

If it's good enough for the U.K., France, Italy, China, Japan, and pretty much every other country in the world, why not? Even [[West) Germany rushed to move its capital from Bonn to Berlin.

And Brazil moved their capitol from Rio to Brasilia [[really the boondocks)
Australia has their capitol in Canberra rather than one of the large cities.
The Netherlands has three capitols [[they split up different gummint fucntions between the three cities).

Czar Peter the Great moved the capitol of Russia from Moscow to St Petersburg [[aka Petrograd or Leningrad) . The commies moved it back to Moscow a few hundred years later.

[Detroitnerd]

And Brazil moved their capitol from Rio to Brasilia [[really the boondocks)
Australia has their capitol in Canberra rather than one of the large cities.
The Netherlands has three capitols [[they split up different gummint fucntions between the three cities).

Czar Peter the Great moved the capitol of Russia from Moscow to St Petersburg [[aka Petrograd or Leningrad) . The commies moved it back to Moscow a few hundred years later.

Ah, yes, Hermod, but those are the EXCEPTIONS. And they're not all that exceptional, frankly.

By the way, if you're going to cherry-pick a few examples from history to support your thesis, I think you can do better. You're trying to compare the United States, which has the overwhelming majority of its state capitals in small cities, and whose capital, Washington, is its 24th largest city, to the world, you should have discarded a few of your examples. To say St. Petersburg was some kind of small town is not accurate. By 1900 it was the eighth largest city in the world, and the LARGEST CITY IN RUSSIA. Similarly, Brasilia is the FOURTH LARGEST CITY IN BRAZIL, a little smaller than Chicago proper. Wow, some boondocks they have out there!

Anyway, why is the United States so different from other countries. Gosh, you know, maybe they appreciate and invest in their cities, instead of fearing and loathing them and being satisfied with tooling from strip mall to strip mall in their gas buggies!