Thinking about how fucked up it is that Denver is the capital of Colorado and Boston is the capital of Massachusetts instead of some random tiny city no one outside the state ever thinks about
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It’s at the intersection of the Great Valley and the Susquehanna River, two traditional transportation corridors. It also is well away from Philly, so its choice reduces Philly’s domination of the state. When it was picked, Pittsburgh was not nearly as important.
The winner on the other side is Olympia, the 24th largest city in WA (I guess there’s something weird going on with municipal borders).
After that, Jefferson City is the 15th largest city in Missouri, and Frankfort the 14th largest city in Kentucky
salt lake city is great because it has the hq of the mormon church and most right wing utah mormons are terrified to even enter the city limits because of "crime" and homeless people
For New Mexico, Santa Fe made sense historically. But now if you want your protest on the pulse of the state it makes no sense. Albuquerque has more people, more federal offices and all the media. For Democracy's sake stop organizing major rallies only in Santa Fe!
State capitals need to be smaller cities that can absorb insults. You can’t convincingly “stop those fatcats in Atlanta” or “shake things up in Phoenix!”
I genuinely was trying to remember the capital of Massachusetts for some reason recently and kept trying to convince myself it was, like, Amherst because “it can’t be Boston, that’s too obvious”
Honestly the only reason I can remember that it's there is because the fact that you can see the capitol dome from Matt Damon's window is a plot point in THE DEPARTED
I don’t know if it’s still true, but I once won a bar trivia night by correctly guessing that Montpelier was the only state capitol without a McDonalds.
All good Jeffersonians know that big cities are full of moneyed interests and rootless cosmopolitans that have to be kept far away from our yeoman legislators.
Read a blog post years ago about how Boston was an oddity among the early US state capitals. The original colonial capitals were on the coast but most (apart from Boston) moved inland.
Incredibly bad vibes for a state capital to be situated inside the state's largest Designated Market Area. Look at the states where this is the case; that's a list you don't want to be on.
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After that, Jefferson City is the 15th largest city in Missouri, and Frankfort the 14th largest city in Kentucky
We should just make it Louisville tbh
(trick question. you're American and, given the current state of thing, clearly the answer is "no.")
Biggest city and named after the state. boo!
Move that dome to some one stoplight town in the panhandle
Which makes it a PERFECT candidate
https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2016/10/why-is-boston-still-capital-of.html?m=1